How to calculate the driving distance between two points?

Question

In my app I am getting the latitude , longitude co-ordinates of places using GeocodeService now I want to get distance between these places.

I've tried GetDistanceTo method to get the distance two location co-ordinates but it gives me stright distance.

How can I calculate driving distance between two locations?

thanks in advance

this might help you http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html — Swift Sharp, Feb 12 '13 at 15:45

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 13 '13 at 04:10

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To calculate the driving distance you'll have to use the Bing Routes API (or Google, but I assume you're using Bing Maps).

There's an example of using the api to find a driving route between two places here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg636957.aspx

You'll have to register for a Bing Maps API key, and then replace location1 and location2 with the locations you like.

The distance should be returned in travelDistance in the json or xml

answered Feb 13 '13 at 04:10

codechinchilla

yes am using bing maps i need only `traveldistance` i dont want route bitween places :) – sunny Feb 13 '13 at 05:48
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The rest of the route info comes with the call, but you can ignore that, and just extract the travelDistance field :) – codechinchilla Feb 13 '13 at 06:21
Hi, is it possible to exclude all the other and get only the distance? – Patrick Apr 20 '15 at 21:47

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