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How to calculate the distance between two locations on the earth?

How to calculate distances based on latitude and longitude?

How to implement a "store locator" based on a user's ZIP code, which lists the closest dealers from our database?

Mar 15th, 2008 18:04
ha mo, Articles Hosting, Shashank Tripathi, http://sniptools.com/latitudeLongitude.php

Although some commercial products exist to do this, e.g., Zipfind's 
Locator (http://zipfindlocator.com/prodcom.htm), the basic idea behind 
this is to calculate the distance between latitude and longitude of 
different locations. For some good references and some sample code, 
please visit this website: http://sniptools.com/latitudeLongitude.php 
But for the purposes of this question itself, the following code 
should be useful: 
//-----------------------------------------------------------------
// Function takes latitude and longitude  of two places as input
// and retuns a string with the distance in miles and KMs. 
//-----------------------------------------------------------------
function converLatitudeLongitudeToMiles($lat1, $lon1, $lat2, $lon2)
{
    // This is the formula for calculating distances
    // from latitude and longitude.
    $dist   = acos(sin(deg2rad($lat1))
              * sin(deg2rad($lat2)) + cos(deg2rad($lat1))
              * cos(deg2rad($lat2))
              * cos(deg2rad($lon1 - $lon2)));
    $dist   = rad2deg($dist);
    $miles  = (float) $dist * 69;
    // To get kilometers, multiply miles by 1.61
    $km     = (float) $miles * 1.61;
    // This is all displaying functionality
    $display  = sprintf("%0.2f",$miles) . " miles" ;
    $display .= " (" . sprintf("%0.2f",$km) . " kilometers)" ;
    return $display ;
}
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timeanddate.com/worldclock/distance.html
i hope that helps.
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