Get locations within radius

Question

In a database I have stored around 500 records, each with a latitude and a longitude.

In an Activity I implement a LocationListener and in the onLocationChanged-method I need to show the records that is within a radius of XX metres from the location received from this listener.

Is there an (easy) way to do this, either in SQL or Java?

Answer 1

Try this sample code,

rs = st.executeQuery("SELECT longititude,latitude FROM  location");
                while (rs.next()) {
                double venueLat =rs.getDouble("latitude");
                double venueLng = rs.getDouble("longititude");

                double latDistance = Math.toRadians(userLat - venueLat);
                double lngDistance = Math.toRadians(userLng - venueLng);
                double a = (Math.sin(latDistance / 2) * Math.sin(latDistance / 2)) +
                                (Math.cos(Math.toRadians(userLat))) *
                                (Math.cos(Math.toRadians(venueLat))) *
                                (Math.sin(lngDistance / 2)) *
                                (Math.sin(lngDistance / 2));

                double c = 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1 - a));

                double dist = 6371 * c;             
                if (dist<50){
                    /* Include your code here to display your records */ 
                }