Calculating distance between two geographic locations

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please shed some light on this situation  Right now i have two array having latitude and longitude of nearby places and also have the user location latiude and longiude now i want to calculate the distance between user location and nearby places and want to show them in listview   I know that there is a method for calculating distance as  public static void distanceBetween  double startLatitude  double startLongitude  double endLatitude  double endLongitude  float   results     Now what is the problem is how to pass these two array having nearby latitude and longitue in this method and get the array of distances

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public double distance Double latitude  Double longitude  double e  double f            double d2r   Math PI   180           double dlong    longitude - f    d2r          double dlat    latitude - e    d2r          double a   Math pow Math sin dlat   2 0   2    Math cos e   d2r                    Math cos latitude   d2r    Math pow Math sin dlong   2 0   2          double c   2   Math atan2 Math sqrt a   Math sqrt 1 - a            double d   6367   c                  return d

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I wanted to implement myself this  i ended up reading the Wikipedia page on Great-circle distance formula  because no code was readable enough for me to use as basis   C  example           lt summary gt          Calculates the distance between two locations using the Great Circle Distance algorithm          lt see cref  https   en wikipedia org wiki Great-circle distance   gt           lt  summary gt           lt param name  first  gt  lt  param gt           lt param name  second  gt  lt  param gt           lt returns gt  lt  returns gt      private static double DistanceBetween GeoLocation first  GeoLocation second                double longitudeDifferenceInRadians   Math Abs ToRadians first Longitude  - ToRadians second Longitude             double centralAngleBetweenLocationsInRadians   Math Acos              Math Sin ToRadians first Latitude     Math Sin ToRadians second Latitude                 Math Cos ToRadians first Latitude     Math Cos ToRadians second Latitude                 Math Cos longitudeDifferenceInRadians             const double earthRadiusInMeters   6357   1000           return earthRadiusInMeters   centralAngleBetweenLocationsInRadians             private static double ToRadians double degrees                return degrees   Math PI   180

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There is only one user Location  so you can iterate List of nearby places can call the distanceTo   function to get the distance  you can store in an array if you like    From what I understand  distanceBetween   is for far away places  it s output is a  WGS84 ellipsoid

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http   developer android com reference android location Location html Look into distanceTo  Returns the approximate distance in meters between this location and the given location  Distance is defined using the WGS84 ellipsoid   or distanceBetween  Computes the approximate distance in meters between two locations  and optionally the initial and final bearings of the shortest path between them  Distance and bearing are defined using the WGS84 ellipsoid   You can create a Location object from a latitude and longitude  Location locationA   new Location  quot point A quot     locationA setLatitude latA   locationA setLongitude lngA    Location locationB   new Location  quot point B quot     locationB setLatitude latB   locationB setLongitude lngB    float distance   locationA distanceTo locationB    or private double meterDistanceBetweenPoints float lat a  float lng a  float lat b  float lng b        float pk    float   180 f Math PI        float a1   lat a   pk      float a2   lng a   pk      float b1   lat b   pk      float b2   lng b   pk       double t1   Math cos a1    Math cos a2    Math cos b1    Math cos b2       double t2   Math cos a1    Math sin a2    Math cos b1    Math sin b2       double t3   Math sin a1    Math sin b1       double tt   Math acos t1   t2   t3           return 6366000   tt

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distanceTo will give you the distance in meters between the two given location ej target distanceTo destination    distanceBetween give you the distance also but it will store the distance in a array of float  results 0    the doc says If results has length 2 or greater  the initial bearing is stored in results 1   If results has length 3 or greater  the final bearing is stored in results 2    hope that this helps  i ve used distanceTo to get the distance from point A to B i think that is the way to go

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Try This Code  here we have two longitude and latitude values and selected location distanceTo near locations  function returns the distance between those places in meters  Location selected location   new Location  quot locationA quot                selected location setLatitude 17 372102               selected location setLongitude 78 484196   Location near locations   new Location  quot locationB quot                near locations setLatitude 17 375775               near locations setLongitude 78 469218   double distance   selected location distanceTo near locations    here  quot distance quot  is distance between locationA  amp  locationB  in Meters

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private static Double  MilesToKilometers   1 609344      private static Double  MilesToNautical   0 8684             lt summary gt          Calculates the distance between two points of latitude and longitude          Great Link - http   www movable-type co uk scripts latlong html          lt  summary gt           lt param name  coordinate1  gt First coordinate  lt  param gt           lt param name  coordinate2  gt Second coordinate  lt  param gt           lt param name  unitsOfLength  gt Sets the return value unit of length  lt  param gt      public static Double Distance Coordinate coordinate1  Coordinate coordinate2  UnitsOfLength unitsOfLength                 double theta   coordinate1 getLongitude   - coordinate2 getLongitude            double distance   Math sin ToRadian coordinate1 getLatitude       Math sin ToRadian coordinate2 getLatitude                              Math cos ToRadian coordinate1 getLatitude       Math cos ToRadian coordinate2 getLatitude                              Math cos ToRadian theta             distance   Math acos distance           distance   ToDegree distance           distance   distance   60   1 1515           if  unitsOfLength    UnitsOfLength Kilometer              distance   distance    MilesToKilometers          else if  unitsOfLength    UnitsOfLength NauticalMiles              distance   distance    MilesToNautical           return  distance

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