Distance between 2 geocodes

Question

What is the formula for calculating the distance between 2 geocodes? I have seen some of the answers on this site but they basically say to rely on SQL Server 08 functions,

Answer 1

This will do it for you in c#.

Within the namespace put these:

 public enum DistanceType { Miles, Kilometers };

public struct Position
{
    public double Latitude;
    public double Longitude;
}

class Haversine
{

    public double Distance(Position pos1, Position pos2, DistanceType type)
    {
        double preDlat = pos2.Latitude - pos1.Latitude;
        double preDlon = pos2.Longitude - pos1.Longitude;
        double R = (type == DistanceType.Miles) ? 3960 : 6371;
        double dLat = this.toRadian(preDlat);
        double dLon = this.toRadian(preDlon);
        double a = Math.Sin(dLat / 2) * Math.Sin(dLat / 2) +
        Math.Cos(this.toRadian(pos1.Latitude)) * Math.Cos(this.toRadian(pos2.Latitude)) *
        Math.Sin(dLon / 2) * Math.Sin(dLon / 2);
        double c = 2 * Math.Asin(Math.Min(1, Math.Sqrt(a)));
        double d = R * c;
        return d;
    }

    private double toRadian(double val)
    {
        return (Math.PI / 180) * val;
    }

Then to utilise these in the main code:

Position pos1 = new Position();
                    pos1.Latitude = Convert.ToDouble(hotelx.latitude);
                    pos1.Longitude = Convert.ToDouble(hotelx.longitude);
                    Position pos2 = new Position();
                    pos2.Latitude = Convert.ToDouble(lat);
                    pos2.Longitude = Convert.ToDouble(lng);
                    Haversine calc = new Haversine();

                    double result = calc.Distance(pos1, pos2, DistanceType.Miles);