Yes. According to the source code (http://source.android.com/download), the section 4 of this document is used to calculate the distance: http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/inverse.pdf
Good luck. On Mar 29, 3:31 pm, Patrick <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > I'm developing an Android app with a web for GPS data handling. The > android app collects GPS data and then uploads them to a server (Java > Tomcat). > > In the android app, the distance is calculated using the the > distanceTo-method in the android.location package (Location class) and > it seems to work fine. > > But the problem is when I try do to the same in the web, using the > uploaded GPS data (I don't upload the distance between GPS position, > but latitude, longitude, altitude, time and speed). I still haven't > found an algorithm that calculate the distance between GPS positions > with the same result as the distanceTo-method. The best I have found > so far is this > one:http://www.gavaghan.org/blog/free-source-code/geodesy-library-vincent.... > > Does anyone know how the distanceTo-method calculates the distance. > > Best regards, > Patrick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
