how to get current position?

I have been provided with this address and told to find th开发者_如何学运维e current location of me

http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=address&output=csv

what kind of address is this and how can i get the information about this . Is this API ?

Please help

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suppose if you give http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=newyork&output=csv, the result will be 200,4,40.7143528,-74.0059731.The last 2 values mean latitude and longitude value for New york...I hope it will help you.If you integrate this url in your app, you can get co-ordinates and use them to show the map in MKMapView in iPhone.

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602,0,0,0

this is your location coordinates. and according to Google map you are located

here

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With that you can get latitude and longitude of an address. If you request this url and you use the address you want to find the coordinates you get 4 value as a response. You can use this function to get a Location object with lat and log of your address:

-(CLLocationCoordinate2D) addressLocation:(NSString *)address {
  NSString *urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=%@&output=csv", 
                [address stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
  NSString *locationString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlString]];
  NSArray *listItems = [locationString componentsSeparatedByString:@","];

  double latitude = 0.0;
  double longitude = 0.0;

  if([listItems count] >= 4 && [[listItems objectAtIndex:0] isEqualToString:@"200"]) {
    latitude = [[listItems objectAtIndex:2] doubleValue];
    longitude = [[listItems objectAtIndex:3] doubleValue];
  }
  else {
     //Show error
  }
  CLLocationCoordinate2D location;
  location.latitude = latitude;
  location.longitude = longitude;

  return location;
}

You can find more help here: http://mithin.in/2009/06/22/using-iphone-sdk-mapkit-framework-a-tutorial