How to calculate distance between two locations using their longitude and latitude value

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Here my code I used below code to calculate the distance between two location using their latitude and longitude. It is giving wrong distance. sometimes getting right and sometimes getting irrelevant distance.

We are getting lat1 and lng1 from database.

//getting lat2 and lng2 from GPS as below

public class MyLocationListener implements LocationListener {

  @Override
  public void onLocationChanged(Location loc)
  {
    lat2=loc.getLatitude();
    lng2=loc.getLongitude();
    String Text = "My current location is: " +"Latitud = "+ loc.getLatitude() +"Longitud = " + loc.getLongitude();

    //System.out.println("Lat & Lang form Loc"+Text);
    //Toast.makeText( getApplicationContext(), Text,Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
  }

  @Override
  public void onProviderDisabled(String provider)
  {
  }

  @Override
  public void onProviderEnabled(String provider)
  {
  }

  @Override
  public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras)
  {
  }


  //Calculating distance
  double earthRadius = 3958.75;

  double dLat = Math.toRadians(lat1-lat2);
  double dLng = Math.toRadians(lng1-lng2);
  double a = Math.sin(dLat/2) * Math.sin(dLat/2) +
             Math.cos(Math.toRadians(lat2)) * Math.cos(Math.toRadians(lat1)) *
             Math.sin(dLng/2) * Math.sin(dLng/2);
  double c = 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1-a));
  double dist = earthRadius * c;
android
15 Answers

Try this code.

startPoint.distanceTo(endPoint) function returns the distance between those places in meters.

Location startPoint=new Location("locationA");
startPoint.setLatitude(17.372102);
startPoint.setLongitude(78.484196);

Location endPoint=new Location("locationA");
endPoint.setLatitude(17.375775);
endPoint.setLongitude(78.469218);

double distance=startPoint.distanceTo(endPoint);

here "distance" is our required result in Meters. I hope it will work for android.

user_27209290

Get KM from lat long

public static float getKmFromLatLong(float lat1, float lng1, float lat2, float lng2){
            Location loc1 = new Location("");
            loc1.setLatitude(lat1);
            loc1.setLongitude(lng1);
            Location loc2 = new Location("");
            loc2.setLatitude(lat2);
            loc2.setLongitude(lng2);
            float distanceInMeters = loc1.distanceTo(loc2);
            return distanceInMeters/1000;
        }
user_71761890

Use the below method for calculating the distance of two different locations.

public double getKilometers(double lat1, double long1, double lat2, double long2) {
 double PI_RAD = Math.PI / 180.0;
 double phi1 = lat1 * PI_RAD;
 double phi2 = lat2 * PI_RAD;
 double lam1 = long1 * PI_RAD;
 double lam2 = long2 * PI_RAD;

return 6371.01 * acos(sin(phi1) * sin(phi2) + cos(phi1) * cos(phi2) * cos(lam2 - lam1));}
user_66451120

Try This below method code to get the distance in meter between two location, hope it will help for you

 public static double distance(LatLng start, LatLng end){
    try {
        Location location1 = new Location("locationA");
        location1.setLatitude(start.latitude);
        location1.setLongitude(start.longitude);
        Location location2 = new Location("locationB");
        location2.setLatitude(end.latitude);
        location2.setLongitude(end.longitude);
        double distance = location1.distanceTo(location2);
        return distance;
    } catch (Exception e) {

        e.printStackTrace();

    }
    return 0;
}
user_40423840

In Kotlin

private fun distanceInMeter(startLat: Double, startLon: Double, endLat: Double, endLon: Double): Float {
    var results = FloatArray(1)
    Location.distanceBetween(startLat,startLon,endLat,endLon,results)  
    return results[0]
}
user_33884330

You should use Haversine Distance Formulas

Haversine Formulas used to calculate the great distance between two points on the earth.

    public void haversine(double lat1, double lon1, double lat2, double lon2) {
 double Rad = 6372.8; //Earth's Radius In kilometers
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            double dLat = Math.toRadians(lat2 - lat1);
            double dLon = Math.toRadians(lon2 - lon1);
            lat1 = Math.toRadians(lat1);
            lat2 = Math.toRadians(lat2);
            double a = Math.sin(dLat / 2) * Math.sin(dLat / 2) + Math.sin(dLon / 2) * Math.sin(dLon / 2) * Math.cos(lat1) * Math.cos(lat2);
            double c = 2 * Math.asin(Math.sqrt(a));
            haverdistanceKM = Rad * c;

        }
user_52868850

Returns the approximate distance in meters between this location and the given location. Distance is defined using the WGS84 ellipsoid.

public float getMesureLatLang(double lat,double lang) {

    Location loc1 = new Location("");
    loc1.setLatitude(getLatitute());// current latitude
    loc1.setLongitude(getLangitute());//current  Longitude

    Location loc2 = new Location("");
    loc2.setLatitude(lat);
    loc2.setLongitude(lang);

    return loc1.distanceTo(loc2);
 //  return distance(getLatitute(),getLangitute(),lat,lang);
}
user_58942710

Updated on October 8, 2021

Returns the approximate distance in meters between this location and the given location. Distance is defined using the WGS84 ellipsoid.

Java

  public float getDistance(double startLat,double startLang,double endLat,double endLang) {

        Location locStart = new Location("");
        locStart.setLatitude(startLat);
        locStart.setLongitude(startLang);

        Location locEnd = new Location("");
        locEnd.setLatitude(endLat);
        locEnd.setLongitude(endLang);

        return locStart.distanceTo(locEnd);
    }

Kotlin

 private fun getDistance(
        startLat: Double,
        startLang: Double,
        endLat: Double,
        endLang: Double
    ): Float {
        val locStart = Location("")
        locStart.latitude = startLat
        locStart.longitude = startLang
        val locEnd = Location("")
        locEnd.latitude = endLat
        locEnd.longitude = endLang
        return locStart.distanceTo(locEnd)
    }
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