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Given a CLLocationDistance (simply a Double representing meters), output a user-readable string: let distance = CLLocationDistance(42) let formatter = MKDistanceFormatter() let answer = formatter.stringFromDistance(distance) // answer = "150 feet" Objective-C CLLocationDistance dis...

import Mapkit Set units to one of .Default, .Metric, .Imperial, .ImperialWithYards: formatter.units = .Metric var answer = formatter.stringFromDistance(distance) // "40 m" formatter.units = .ImperialWithYards answer = formatter.stringFromDistance(distance) // "50 yards" ...

Set unitStyle to one of .Default, .Abbreviated, .Full: formatter.unitStyle = .Full var answer = formatter.stringFromDistance(distance) // "150 feet" formatter.unitStyle = .Abbreviated answer = formatter.stringFromDistance(distance) // "150 ft" Objective-C formatter.un...