Center coordinate of a set of CLLocationsCoordinate2D

Question

Is there any way to get center coordinate of a set of CLLocationsCoordinate2D in iOS?

Answer 1

Hmm... it depends how you define the centre of the points. Does it depend on the distribution etc...

An easy way to do it is as follows...

//find rect that encloses all coords

float maxLat = -200;
float maxLong = -200;
float minLat = MAXFLOAT;
float minLong = MAXFLOAT;

for (int i=0 ; i<[locations count] ; i++) {
    CLLocationCoordinate2D location = [locations objectAtIndex:i];

    if (location.latitude < minLat) {
        minLat = location.latitude;
    }

    if (location.longitude < minLong) {
        minLong = location.longitude;
    }

    if (location.latitude > maxLat) {
        maxLat = location.latitude;
    }

    if (location.longitude > maxLong) {
        maxLong = location.longitude;
    }
}

//Center point

CLLocationCoordinate2D center = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake((maxLat + minLat) * 0.5, (maxLong + minLong) * 0.5);

This will give the center of the rect covering all the points. However it does not take the spread into account.

i.e.

. = point
X = centre

.....               X                   .

EDIT

Corrected some of the maths.