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Alona
Alona

Reputation: 27

android - gps - trying to get accurate distance

I'm trying to use getLatitudeE6(); but eclipse shows me error:

The method getLatitudeE6() is undefined for the type Location

If I change to getLatitude(); without E6, it works fine and there is no error. but my target is to get accurate latitude and longitude in order to calculate an accurate distance between 2 points with distanceTo(); so I want to use getLatitudeE6

                location = locationManager.getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);

            double finishLati=location.getLatitudeE6() / 1E6;
            double finishLongi=location.getLongitudeE6() / 1E6;

the distanceTo function:

               Location locationA = new Location("A");  

           locationA.setLatitude(startLati);  
           locationA.setLongitude(startLongi);  

           Location locationB = new Location("B");  

           locationB.setLatitude(finishLati);  
           locationB.setLongitude(finishLongi);  

           double distance = locationA.distanceTo(locationB);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 68

Answers (1)

tyczj
tyczj

Reputation: 73753

using getLatitudeE6() vs getLatitude() has nothing to do with you getting an accurate location. in fact you cant use getLatitudeE6 because it does not exist as you can see from the error you are getting when trying to use it.

the problem is that you are using getLastKnownLocation which could be a location that is hours old or it could not even return you a location at all

Upvotes: 1

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