Yesterday came across way of calculating the distance between coordinates(latitude & longitude) and as usual the application is to be written in java, so after my search i got this snippet i would like to share below which can be used as desired.
public static double distFrom2(double p_dbllatitude1, double p_dbllongitude1, double p_dbllatitude2, double p_dbllongitude2) { double radianLat1 = p_dbllatitude1 * Math.PI / 180 ; double radianLat2 = p_dbllatitude2 * Math.PI / 180 ; double radiandiff1 = radianLat1 - radianLat2 ; double radiandiff2 = p_dbllongitude1 * Math.PI / 180 - p_dbllongitude2 * Math.PI / 180 ; double s = 2 * Math.asin ( Math.sqrt ( Math.pow ( Math.sin ( radiandiff1 / 2 ) , 2 ) + Math.cos (radianLat1) * Math.cos (radianLat2) * Math.pow (Math.sin (radiandiff2 / 2 ),2))); s = s * 6378137.0 ; s = Math.round ( s * 100000 ) / 100000 ; return s ; }
the result is in meters and to convert to kilometers just divide by 1000. that all for now.a programmer's dairy..
