I need to calculate the distance between the current location(by getting latitude,longitude from GPS) and designation (mecca[mosque]) which is fixed. Please anyone guide me.
-Thanks in Advance.
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Check out https://github.com/100grams/CoreLocationUtils – 100grams Jun 23 '11 at 16:05
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Make use of
[location1 distanceFromLocation:location2];
In your case
[currentLocation distanceFromLocation:meccaLocation];
Note that this returns the distance in CLLocationDistance
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Yes. You are right. But how can we get the current location withhout Using GPS and web services? – adhees May 04 '11 at 10:14
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Check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5786762/current-location-without-using-gps – visakh7 May 04 '11 at 10:19
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http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
Excellent coverage of the subject.
Additional details are in Bowditch's American Practical Navigator.
And it may help to know this: 21° 25' 36" N / 39° 49' 34" E
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+1 for a great link. Also, if you need to know the distance with an accuracy better than 0.5%, there's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenty%27s_formulae – JeremyP May 04 '11 at 10:05
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And your latitude is off. http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Kaaba¶ms=21_25_21_N_39_49_34_E_type:landmark_scale:2000 – JeremyP May 04 '11 at 10:10