Reputation: 403
I am having trouble starting with this new feature that I have to implement on an application that I am working on. So the application works like this; A user inputs a point on the map by pressing a button and gets a latlng for source. Another modal opens and then they have to do the same for destination. What I want to do is to calculate the distance between two points and show a route on the map. I have been trying to find tutorials on this but have had no luck. Anyone knows how to do this or have any working example repo that I can have a look at it? Would be of great help. Thanks!
Upvotes: 4
Views: 8205
Reputation: 1749
Have you seen this:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/27943/52160
function getDistanceFromLatLonInKm(lat1,lon1,lat2,lon2) {
var R = 6371; // Radius of the earth in km
var dLat = deg2rad(lat2-lat1); // deg2rad below
var dLon = deg2rad(lon2-lon1);
var a =
Math.sin(dLat/2) * Math.sin(dLat/2) +
Math.cos(deg2rad(lat1)) * Math.cos(deg2rad(lat2)) *
Math.sin(dLon/2) * Math.sin(dLon/2);
var c = 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1-a));
var d = R * c; // Distance in km
return d;
}
function deg2rad(deg) {
return deg * (Math.PI/180)
}
}
Upvotes: 6