Sometimes you need to fake locations within your application and the iOS simulator doesn’t come with built in preselected cities and regions.

I created this category helper to all my to manually set a location in a major city using the lat / lon coordinates. It is easy enough to add more cities by looking up their lat / lon, but this is a good start.

#import 

@interface CLLocation (Testing)

+(CLLocation*)locationInSeattle;
+(CLLocation*)locationInNewYork;
+(CLLocation*)locationInSanFransisco;
+(CLLocation*)locationInBoston;
+(CLLocation*)locationInMiami;
+(CLLocation*)locationInLondon;

@end

#import "CLLocation+Testing.h"

@implementation CLLocation (Testing)

+(CLLocation*)locationInSeattle{
    CLLocationDegrees lat = 47.6097;
    CLLocationDegrees lon = -122.3331;
    CLLocation *someLocation = [[CLLocation alloc] initWithLatitude:lat longitude:lon];
    return  someLocation;
}

+(CLLocation*)locationInNewYork{
    CLLocationDegrees lat = 40.7142;
    CLLocationDegrees lon = -74.0064;
    CLLocation *someLocation = [[CLLocation alloc] initWithLatitude:lat longitude:lon];
    return  someLocation;
}

+(CLLocation*)locationInSanFransisco{
    CLLocationDegrees lat = 37.7750;
    CLLocationDegrees lon = -122.4183;
    CLLocation *someLocation = [[CLLocation alloc] initWithLatitude:lat longitude:lon];
    return  someLocation;
}

+(CLLocation*)locationInBoston{
    CLLocationDegrees lat = 42.3583;
    CLLocationDegrees lon = -71.0603;
    CLLocation *someLocation = [[CLLocation alloc] initWithLatitude:lat longitude:lon];
    return  someLocation;
}

+(CLLocation*)locationInMiami{
    CLLocationDegrees lat = 25.4716;
    CLLocationDegrees lon = -80.1327;
    CLLocation *someLocation = [[CLLocation alloc] initWithLatitude:lat longitude:lon];
    return  someLocation;
}

+(CLLocation*)locationInLondon{
    CLLocationDegrees lat = 51.5171;
    CLLocationDegrees lon = -0.1062;
    CLLocation *someLocation = [[CLLocation alloc] initWithLatitude:lat longitude:lon];
    return  someLocation;
} 

@end