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Core Location is one of the great things about the iPhone and iPod touch platform, but until recently it was actually quite hard to take that location-aware goodness and display it on a map. The arrival of the MapKit framework has simplified this enormously.
This screencast shows how to put together the Where Am I? application which I talked about in the Chapter 11 of the book. The application is a simple MapKit and CoreLocation view based application finds and updates the user's location onto a map whilst simulateously displaying the latitude and longitude at the user's location in decimal degrees.
Learn more about this topic from Learning iPhone Programming.
Get the hands-on experience you need to program for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With this easy-to-follow guide, you'll build several sample applications by learning how to use Xcode tools, the Objective-C programming language, and the core frameworks. Before you know it, you'll not only have the skills to develop your own apps, you'll know how to sail through the process of submitting apps to the iTunes App Store.
