when i was working on maps , i got a prblem to find the distance between two latitudes and longitudes ,here is the code..
default the distance is in kilometers ……….
private double distance(double lat1, double lon1, double lat2, double lon2, char unit)
{
double theta = lon1 – lon2;
double dist = Math.Sin(deg2rad(lat1)) * Math.Sin(deg2rad(lat2)) + Math.Cos(deg2rad(lat1)) * Math.Cos(deg2rad(lat2)) * Math.Cos(deg2rad(theta));
dist = Math.Acos(dist);
dist = rad2deg(dist);
dist = dist * 60 * 1.1515;
if (unit == ‘K’)
{
dist = dist * 1.609344;
}
else if (unit == ‘N’)
{
dist = dist * 0.8684;
}
return (dist);
}
private double deg2rad(double deg)
{
return (deg * Math.PI / 180.0);
}
private double rad2deg(double rad)
{
return (rad / Math.PI * 180.0);
}
