Drop pin at current user location iphone mkmapview - ios

Question

Ok, here's my attempt at using CLLoactionManager
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
mapView=[[MKMapView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.frame];
//mapView.showsUserLocation=TRUE;
mapView.delegate=self;
[self.view insertSubview:mapView atIndex:0];
CLLocationManager *locationManager=[[CLLocationManager alloc] init];
locationManager.delegate=self;
locationManager.desiredAccuracy=kCLLocationAccuracyNearestTenMeters;
[locationManager startUpdatingLocation];
}
- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateToLocation:(CLLocation *)newLocation fromLocation:(CLLocation *)oldLocation {
mStoreLocationButton.hidden=FALSE;
location=newLocation.coordinate;
//One location is obtained.. just zoom to that location
MKCoordinateRegion region;
region.center=location;
MKCoordinateSpan span;
span.latitudeDelta=0.01;
span.longitudeDelta=0.01;
region.span=span;
[mapView setRegion:region animated:TRUE];
}
My problem is that [locationManager startUpdatingLocation]; doesn't seem to fire the next method. What am I missing? I've tried setting breakpoints in the second method, but they never catch. Obviously it's not being used.

Answer 1

You should look into using a CLLocationManager to get the current location to feed your MKMapView with the correct coordinates.
CLLocationManager *locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init];
MKMapView *map = [[MKMapView alloc] init];
[locationManager startUpdatingLocation];
CLLocationCoordinate2D _coordinate = locationManager.location.coordinate;
MKCoordinateRegion extentsRegion = MKCoordinateRegionMakeWithDistance(_coordinate, 800, 800);
[map setRegion:extentsRegion animated:YES];

Answer 2

This looks like a good place to start. In order to drop a pin, you need to know the coordinates. Using - (void)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView didUpdateUserLocation:(MKUserLocation *)userLocation will help you get the user's location so that you can create an MKAnnotation and MKPinAnnotationViews. Its pretty straight forward once you get started.