Calculate Distance and Bearing

don · by **don** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 5:12 pm

I am trying to calculate some statistics on two points on the map. First, I used the Haversine Formula to calculate the distance between two points. However, now I want to calculate the bearing (angle) to travel from the first point in order to reach the second. Does anyone have any ideas how to do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:04 am

Hello dan,

this is what I am using in my AndNav!-Application. (It works fine):

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        /**
 
         * Calculates the bearing of the two Locations supplied and returns the
 
         * Angle in the following (GPS-likely) manner: <br />
 
         * <code>N:0°, E:90°, S:180°, W:270°</code>
 
         */
 
        public static float calculateBearing(Location before, Location after) {
 
                Point pBefore = location2Point(before);
 
                Point pAfter = location2Point(after);
 
                float res = -(float) (Math.atan2(pAfter.y - pBefore.y, pAfter.x
 
                                - pBefore.x) * 180 / PI) + 90.0f;
 
                Log.d(Constants.DEBUGTAG, "Bearing: " + res);
 
                if (res < 0)
 
                        return res + 360.0f;
 
                else
 
                        return res;
 
        }
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Hope I could help you.

Regards,
plusminus

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 7:28 am

Hey guys,

this is the missing [font=Lucida Console]location2Point[/font] function:

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        /** Converts an <code>android.location.Location</code> to an <code>android.graphics.Point</code>. */
 
        public static Point location2Point(Location aLocation){
 
                return new Point((int) (aLocation.getLongitude() * 1E6),
 
                                                (int) (aLocation.getLatitude() * 1E6));
 
        }
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Regards,
plusminus

owalekar · by **owalekar** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 6:26 am

Thanks,
Perfect!!

tylerdurden45 · by **tylerdurden45** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 11:11 pm

plusminus wrote:Hey guys,

this is the missing [font=Lucida Console]location2Point[/font] function:

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/** Converts an <code>android.location.Location</code> to an <code>android.graphics.Point</code>. */

public static Point location2Point(Location aLocation){

return new Point((int) (aLocation.getLongitude() * 1E6),

(int) (aLocation.getLatitude() * 1E6));

}

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Regards,
plusminus

Hey plusminus,
My problem is that, I have two locations and how can i understand that angle between of them actually main problem is that if user in a car and turns right, or turns left, I have a locationlistener and want to understand that moves of user.
thank you

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