Usage

./CoreLocationCLI [-once]

If running from a Mac, make sure your WiFi is turned on. Otherwise you will see kCLErrorDomain error 0.

Overview

Prints location information from CoreLocation. If the -once YES option is used, will exit after first location update. Otherwise, will continuously print output. After you download, be sure to chmod 755 and run from Terminal.

USAGE: CoreLocationCLI [options]
       Displays current location using CoreLocation services.
       By default, this will continue printing locations until you kill it with Ctrl-C.

OPTIONS:
  -h               Display this help message and exit

  -once YES        Print one location and exit
  -verbose YES     Verbose mode
  -format 'format' Print a formatted string with the following specifiers
     %latitude
     %longitude
     %altitude    (meters)
     %direction   (degrees from true north)
     %speed       (meters per second)
     %h_accuracy  (meters)
     %v_accuracy  (meters)
     %time
     %address     (revsere geocode location)

  the format defaults to '%%latitude/%%longitude (%%address)

Output example

./CoreLocationCLI

50.9438299979853/6.94104380198676 (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 21
Cologne North Rhine-Westphalia 50672
Germany)

./CoreLocationCLI -once yes -format '%latitude : %longitude'

50.9438299979853 6.94104380198676

Building

To build this from the command line, run the compiler:

xcodebuild

And then your executable can be run from this location:

build/Release/CoreLocationCLI

Contact

Contact corelocationcli@phor.net