Calculating the distance between 2 latitudes and longitudes that are saved in a text file?

Question

I\'ve looked around and still couldn\'t find anything to help me really! I\'ve written a program to calculate the distance between 2 cities using their Latitudes and Longitu

Answer 1

As it is said, Haversine formula is your answer:

#include 
#include  
#define earthRadiusKm 6371.0

// This function converts decimal degrees to radians
double deg2rad(double deg) {
  return (deg * M_PI / 180);
}

//  This function converts radians to decimal degrees
double rad2deg(double rad) {
  return (rad * 180 / M_PI);
}

/**
 * Returns the distance between two points on the Earth.
 * Direct translation from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haversine_formula
 * @param lat1d Latitude of the first point in degrees
 * @param lon1d Longitude of the first point in degrees
 * @param lat2d Latitude of the second point in degrees
 * @param lon2d Longitude of the second point in degrees
 * @return The distance between the two points in kilometers
 */
double distanceEarth(double lat1d, double lon1d, double lat2d, double lon2d) {
  double lat1r, lon1r, lat2r, lon2r, u, v;
  lat1r = deg2rad(lat1d);
  lon1r = deg2rad(lon1d);
  lat2r = deg2rad(lat2d);
  lon2r = deg2rad(lon2d);
  u = sin((lat2r - lat1r)/2);
  v = sin((lon2r - lon1r)/2);
  return 2.0 * earthRadiusKm * asin(sqrt(u * u + cos(lat1r) * cos(lat2r) * v * v));
}