[iphone] Setting the zoom level for a MKMapView

A Swift 2.0 answer utilising NSUserDefaults to save and restore the map's zoom and position.

Function to save the map position and zoom:

func saveMapRegion() {
    let mapRegion = [
        "latitude" : mapView.region.center.latitude,
        "longitude" : mapView.region.center.longitude,
        "latitudeDelta" : mapView.region.span.latitudeDelta,
        "longitudeDelta" : mapView.region.span.longitudeDelta
    ]
    NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().setObject(mapRegion, forKey: "mapRegion")
}

Run the function each time the map is moved:

func mapView(mapView: MKMapView, regionDidChangeAnimated animated: Bool) 
{
        saveMapRegion();
}

Function to save the map zoom and position:

func restoreMapRegion() 
{
    if let mapRegion = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().objectForKey("mapRegion") 
    {

        let longitude = mapRegion["longitude"] as! CLLocationDegrees
        let latitude = mapRegion["latitude"] as! CLLocationDegrees
        let center = CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: latitude, longitude: longitude)

        let longitudeDelta = mapRegion["latitudeDelta"] as! CLLocationDegrees
        let latitudeDelta = mapRegion["longitudeDelta"] as! CLLocationDegrees
        let span = MKCoordinateSpan(latitudeDelta: latitudeDelta, longitudeDelta: longitudeDelta)

        let savedRegion = MKCoordinateRegion(center: center, span: span)

        self.mapView.setRegion(savedRegion, animated: false)
    }
}

Add this to viewDidLoad:

restoreMapRegion()