I've been through several different tutorials trying to get this working, but they seem to gloss over some crucial steps that a beginner might not know.

I have a JSON file at a URL with name, latitude, and longitude listed. How can I import that to an array or dictionary (I don't know the difference), and then iterate over it and create a new annotation with each iteration. 

IOS6, Storyboards

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**ViewController.h**

```
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import <MapKit/MapKit.h>

@interface ViewController : UIViewController {}

@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet MKMapView *mapView;

@property (nonatomic, strong) NSMutableData *downloadData;

@end

```

**ViewController.m**

```
#import "ViewController.h"
#import "MapViewAnnotation.h"

@interface ViewController ()

@end

@implementation ViewController

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    _downloadData = [NSMutableData new];

    NSURL *requestURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"OMITTED/apptest/locations.json"];
    NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:requestURL];
    NSURLConnection *connection = [NSURLConnection connectionWithRequest:request delegate:self];
    [connection start];
}

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data {
    [_downloadData appendData:data];
}

- (void)connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *)connection {
    id parsed = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_downloadData options:kNilOptions error:nil];
    for (NSDictionary *pointInfo in parsed)
    {
        NSLog([parsed objectForKey:@"name"]);
        double xCoord = [(NSNumber*)[parsed objectForKey:@"lat"] doubleValue];
        double yCoord = [(NSNumber*)[parsed objectForKey:@"lon"] doubleValue];
        CLLocationCoordinate2D coords = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(xCoord, yCoord);

        MKPointAnnotation *point = [MKPointAnnotation new];
        point.coordinate = coords;
        point.title = [parsed objectForKey:@"name"];

        [self.mapView addAnnotation:point]; // or whatever your map view's variable name is
    }
}

- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
    [super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
    // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}

-(void)viewDidUnload {
    [super viewDidUnload];
    // ARC Problem --- [_mapView release];
    self.mapView = nil;
}

@end

```