plist + Map - General Question (hopefully)

[Bitzal]

Im struggling to understand how to add locations on a map from a plist.
How would i go to add different locations from the plist on the map?

annotation.coordinate =egg;
annotation.title = [dataItem objectForKey:@"Name"];
annotation.subtitle = [dataItem objectForKey:@"Address"];

Even then how would I set "egg" to have longitude and latitude values programmatically. So if i had 50 locations how would I pull it in without having hundreds line of code?

Then how would I have the name and address objectForKey move onto the next object.

So in theory im just asking how to add multiple locations onto a map from a plist (Im terrible at wording this). Sample code or just how to go about doing it would be a great help.

Thanks

[Peeks]

Since we don't have the luxury of placing custom objects into a collection class and then into a plist, you'll have to store your data in an arrangement that would make sense for you.

For me, I would have a plist of 1 array. The first four items of the array would contain the data of 1 location. The next four items of the array would contain the data of the 2nd location and so on.

You would then load the plist into an array. Loop through that array, constructing a custom object and then adding it into another array. You will then end up with an array of custom objects.

When assigning the coordinate value, you'll find out that it will not be accessible since it is readonly. You can create another CLLocation instance and initialize it with long, lat values (from your array) and then assign it to your location property for your annotation.

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