Converting CLLocation to a human-readable place name string

In a text-based application I want to enable a simple geotagging feature. Is there a way to convert a CLLocation latitude-longitude information into an actual place name, like "New York, NY", "Vancouver, B.C., Canada", "Birmingham, England" etc.? It doesn't need to be terribly precise, if it can recognize all towns/cities of more than 100-200K people I will be happy. On the same subject, since I'm new to the whole geotagging/GPS thing (I'm developing on a Touch and have never used a GPS device), what are some other developers doing with regards to presenting location information in a human-readable format? Just knowing the longitude/lattitude seems rather uninspiring to me.
Thanks,
DonutMan

You can use Google Maps Reverse Geocoding service.
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html#ReverseGeocoding
It should be easy to wrap these js functions into Objective-C with -stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:
I know there is also a pure OBJC Google API framework but I don't know if it includes this.

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