how to find the distance between two geopoints?

Question

double distance;  

Location locationA = new Location(\"point A\");  

locationA.setLatitude(latA);  
locationA.setLongitude(lngA);  

Location locationB = new Locat         


        

Answer 1

This is not an answer, but note the signature for the Location constructor is Location(String provider).

i.e. the String you pass to the constructor should be one of LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER or LocationManager.PASSIVE_PROVIDER, not "point A" and "point B".

Answer 2

double CalculateDistance( double nLat1, double nLon1, double nLat2, double nLon2 )
{
    double nRadius = 6371; // Earth's radius in Kilometers
    // Get the difference between our two points
    // then convert the difference into radians

    double nDLat = ToRad(nLat2 - nLat1);
    double nDLon = ToRad(nLon2 - nLon1);

    // Here is the new line
    nLat1 =  ToRad(nLat1);
    nLat2 =  ToRad(nLat2);

    double nA = pow ( sin(nDLat/2), 2 ) + cos(nLat1) * cos(nLat2) * pow ( sin(nDLon/2), 2 );

    double nC = 2 * atan2( sqrt(nA), sqrt( 1 - nA ));
    double nD = nRadius * nC;

    return nD; // Return our calculated distance
}

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Answer 3

Just a quick snippet since I didn't see a complete and simple solution with GeoPoints above:

public float getDistanceInMiles(GeoPoint p1, GeoPoint p2) {
    double lat1 = ((double)p1.getLatitudeE6()) / 1e6;
    double lng1 = ((double)p1.getLongitudeE6()) / 1e6;
    double lat2 = ((double)p2.getLatitudeE6()) / 1e6;
    double lng2 = ((double)p2.getLongitudeE6()) / 1e6;
    float [] dist = new float[1];
    Location.distanceBetween(lat1, lng1, lat2, lng2, dist);
    return dist[0] * 0.000621371192f;
}

If you want meters, just return dist[0] directly.

Answer 4

Try Location.distanceBetween(..)

Update:

If you are getting lat/lon from GeoPoint then they are in microdegrees. You must multiply by 1e6.

Answer 5

As stated above, the Location Class is the way to go. Here is the code I have used :

Location locationA = new Location("point A");

locationA.setLatitude(pointA.getLatitudeE6() / 1E6);
locationA.setLongitude(pointA.getLongitudeE6() / 1E6);

Location locationB = new Location("point B");

locationB.setLatitude(pointB.getLatitudeE6() / 1E6);
locationB.setLongitude(pointB.getLongitudeE6() / 1E6);

double distance = locationA.distanceTo(locationB);

In this example, both pointA and pointB are instances of the GeoPoint class.

Answer 6

An alternative way to accomplish the above,

    public class Distance {

    public static double distance(double lat1, double lon1, double lat2, double lon2) {

        double theta = lon1 - lon2;

        double dist = Math.sin(deg2rad(lat1)) * Math.sin(deg2rad(lat2))
                + Math.cos(deg2rad(lat1)) * Math.cos(deg2rad(lat2))
                * Math.cos(deg2rad(theta));
        dist = Math.acos(dist);
        dist = rad2deg(dist);
        dist = dist * 60 * 1.1515;
        //if (unit == "K") {
        //  dist = dist * 1.609344;
        // else if (unit == "N") {
        //dist = dist * 0.8684;
        //}
        return (dist);
    }


    public static final double PI = 3.14159265;
    public static final double deg2radians = PI/180.0;


    public static double getDistance(double latitude1, double longitude1, double latitude2,double longitude2) {

        double lat1 = latitude1 * deg2radians;
        double lat2 = latitude2 * deg2radians;
        double lon1 = longitude1 * deg2radians;
        double lon2 = longitude2 * deg2radians;
        // Williams gives two formulae;
        // this is the more accurate for close distances.
        // In practice, the two differed only in the 8th or 9th place, for
        // separations as small as 1 degree.
        double radd = 2 * Math.asin(Math.sqrt(Math.pow(Math.sin((lat1 - lat2) / 2),
                2.0)
                + Math.cos(lat1)
                * Math.cos(lat2)
                * Math.pow(Math.sin((lon1 - lon2) / 2), 2.0)));

        return radd;
    }





    /* ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: */
    /* :: This function converts decimal degrees to radians : */
    /* ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: */
    private static double deg2rad(double deg) {
        return (deg * Math.PI / 180.0);
    }

    /* ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: */
    /* :: This function converts radians to decimal degrees : */
    /* ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: */
    private static double rad2deg(double rad) {
        return (rad * 180.0 / Math.PI);
    }

}