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Creating a location based on GPS coordinates

I work on a large campus, and the mailing address for my work is not actually physically located very close to the building where my office is. This is causing me serious grief with locations and reminders in iOS 8. If I enter in the mailing address as my "work" address, then I can't use location-based reminders for work tasks because I am never actually physically located at that mailing address. Unfortunately, creating a new location based on my physical location doesn't seem to work, either. If I go to maps and drop a pin at the physical location of my office, it allows me to save this location to my contact info. But the address that it associates with the pin is always the mailing address for the campus, and locations reverts to thinking that my office is at that address instead of at the location where I dropped the pin. In fact, if I tap on my new "work" address it shows up in maps as the location at the mailing address, NOT at the location where I dropped the pin. So it seems that iOS8 insists on associating a location with a mailing address, which means that I can't use location-based reminders for work since I don't actually WORK at a mailing address.

So, my question: Is there ANY way to create a location based on GPS coordinates (a dropped pin) without associating that location with a mailing address? I would love to be able to just drop a pin and call it "work," but I can't find a way to make this happen.

I'm working with iOS 8.0.2 on an iPhone 6.

Another thing I've tried is to create a "favorite" in Maps. In that case, I can define a location based just on where I drop a pin, and I can name it whatever I want and don't have to associated a mailing address with it. Amazingly, it seems that reminders does not have access to the favorites in maps, because I don't get to choose any of my maps favorites when I do location based reminders. That's makes so little sense that I'm assuming I must have some setting turned off somewhere. Hard to believe Apple wouldn't let reminders use locations that have been defined in maps.

I know this is 2 years later, but I just spent about 4 hours searching for the solution for EXACTLY the same problem.

I hope this is what will work with Reminders geofencing. Oh yes, I am on iOS10.0 and macOS Sierra. May be this will help:

It looks to me, that you can add GPS coordinates as address - now, as far as I can say, you need to be on Mac (OSX, macOS) in Contacts and add the GPS in first address field and leave the rest of the fields empty. In my case my address format is US (right click on name of the location on MacOS and select from format field there), not sure if this will work for other address formats. AND, IMPORTANT, the GPC coordinates must be in the form:

+41°32'5.001", -86°29'2.299"

When I used decimal representation, I was being located in the middle of Kansas :-(

Hope this will work, I tested this for few minutes and seems to work on both macOS and iOS...

This absolutely works!!

最后更新：2017-09-17 03:15:01

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