Ok so I have set up a map and an autocomplete field on a testing site.
My goal is to get the user to input his/her address into the field and then when he/she clicks confirm work out the closest store to them based on the information provided.
I have the lat/long for each store and with the help of autocomplete I now have the lat/long of the users address but when I use the computeDistanceBetween method provided in the documentation I get NaN instead of a desired result.
Here is a link to the test site to get an idea - http://dev.touch-akl.com/map/
And Below is what I have tried so far
//---------------------------------------------------------------- //--- Search Box ------------------------------------------------- var input = document.getElementById('address'); var $confirm = $('#confirm'); var options = { types: ['geocode'], componentRestrictions: {country: 'nz'}//Turkey only }; var autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(input,options); autocomplete.bindTo('bounds', map); $confirm.click(function(){ var _street = $('#address').val(); var place = autocomplete.getPlace(); var _coordinates = place.geometry.location.toString(); var _delivery = _coordinates.substring(1, _coordinates.length - 1); var _kCord = '-36.874694,174.735292'; var _pCord = '-36.858317,174.782284' console.log(_coordinates); console.log(_delivery); console.log(google.maps.geometry.spherical.computeDistanceBetween(_pCord, _delivery)); console.log(google.maps.geometry.spherical.computeDistanceBetween(_kCord, _delivery)); });