How to Calculate distance between 2 sets of GPS coordinates

[+MMmm!!]

I know how to use google but I just can't quite find any website that will calculate the distance between coordinates.

 

Set 1

N 44 56.339

W 122 59.106

 

Set 2

N 44° 56.268 W 122° 59.182

 

I know it is probably 600 or so feet apart but all the online calculators I found say different distances.

 

Thanks.

[+Bear and Ragged]

http://www.fizzymagic.net/Geocaching/FizzyCalc/

 

Calculates distance, and a few other useful things!

 

and http://boulter.com/gps/distance/

Edited October 5, 2011 by Bear and Ragged

[+dfx]

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/calculators does a good job at this and tells me it's 542 ft.

[+MMmm!!]

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/calculators does a good job at this and tells me it's 542 ft.

 

Thanks for the link but I am having trouble getting it to work.

Calculate the great circle distance between two points does not want to give me a reading.

 

Calculate the distance between two addresses gets confused when you input GPS coordinates.

 

Nothing else makes sense and I see that you were able to calculate a distance in ft. What am I missing?

 

Thanks

[+MMmm!!]

Here is a useful tool that I found.

 

http://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-distance-calculator.htm

[+MMmm!!]

http://www.fizzymagic.net/Geocaching/FizzyCalc/

 

Calculates distance, and a few other useful things!

 

and http://boulter.com/gps/distance/

 

I like that fizzymagic program immensely. Still would like to find the perfect online tool.

[jholly]

If your trying to determine distances from an existing cache to one you want to place the tool exists here on GC.com. Go to the hide & seek page, enter the coordinates of the proposed cache in the latitude Longitude search and click search. You will get a list of the closest caches to your proposed cache with the distances. Of course this does not show mystery or multi stages. And for the regular members, this works also.

[+dfx]

http://www.gpsvisual...com/calculators does a good job at this and tells me it's 542 ft.

 

Thanks for the link but I am having trouble getting it to work.

Calculate the great circle distance between two points does not want to give me a reading.

 

Calculate the distance between two addresses gets confused when you input GPS coordinates.

 

Nothing else makes sense and I see that you were able to calculate a distance in ft. What am I missing?

 

 

My guess is that you're missing the conversion step. See screenshots below.

 

 

 

[+tomfuller & Quill]

Ed Williams Javascript Great Circle Calculator is my favorite- http://williams.best.vwh.net/gccalc.htm

Just remember to put a colon after the degrees or it won't work. Several of my puzzle caches use Ed Williams.

[+briansnat]

http://www.fizzymagic.net/Geocaching/FizzyCalc/

 

Calculates distance, and a few other useful things!

 

and http://boulter.com/gps/distance/

 

I like that fizzymagic program immensely. Still would like to find the perfect online tool.

 

He gave you two links. Try the Boulter.com link.

[+PeakFault]

There is a really good iPhone app (don't know if it's on Android but it could be) called GCTools.

 

It has many tools including

 

Ciphers

Converters

Data Tables

and Coordinate tools.

 

One of the coordinate tools is "Distance between two caches"

 

Really good app.

[+EdrickV]

There are some apps to do stuff like this in the field.

 

Windows Mobile:

PGCT Pocket Geocaching Toolkit http://www.pgct.nl/index-en.html

 

iPhone:

iGCT iPhone app inspired by PGCT http://igct.btstsoft.nl/ (Should be in the app store)

 

I'm sure there are apps for Android, and more apps for iPhone too.

[+Fryguy1111]

I just found this one from Movable Type Scripts as the ones above were too complicated for my brain to handle

 

But this one accepts many different formats and then presents you with the distance and a google map picture of the coordinates. Oh, the distance metric but you can easily convert it if you wish.

Edited October 10, 2011 by Fryguy1111