distanceFromLocation - Calculate distance between two points

Just a quick question on Core Location, I'm trying to calculate the distance between two points, code is below:

    -(void)locationChange:(CLLocation *)newLocation:(CLLocation *)oldLocation
    {   

    // Configure the new event with information from the location.
        CLLocationCoordinate2D newCoordinate = [newLocation coordinate];
        CLLocationCoordinate2D oldCoordinate = [oldLocation coordinate];

        CLLocationDistance kilometers = [newCoordinate distanceFromLocation:oldCoordinate] / 1000; // Error ocurring here.
        CLLocationDistance meters = [newCoordinate distanceFromLocation:oldCoordinate]; // Error ocurring here.
}

I'm getting the following error on the last two lines:

error: cannot convert to a pointer type

I've been searching Google, but I cannot find anything.

Solution 1:

Try this instead:

CLLocationDistance meters = [newLocation distanceFromLocation:oldLocation];

The method you're trying to use is a method on a CLLocation object :)

Solution 2:

The distance is calculated between 2 CLLocations and not between to coordinates.

You need to use these coordinates to get the CLLocations for the respective coordinates using the following line of code

CLLocation *newLocation = [[CLLocation alloc] initWithCoordinate: newCoordinate altitude:1 horizontalAccuracy:1 verticalAccuracy:-1 timestamp:nil];

Similarly for the other coordinate and then you can calculate the distance between these two locations using the following line of code

CLLocationDistance kilometers = [newLocation distanceFromLocation:oldLocation] / 1000;

Hope this will help you.

Update: Swift 3.0

let distanceKiloMeters = (newLocation.distance(from: oldLocation))/1000

Solution 3:

In Swift

Let's create a method function that calculates distance between two locations:

 func distanceBetweenTwoLocations(source:CLLocation,destination:CLLocation) -> Double{

        var distanceMeters = source.distanceFromLocation(destination)
        var distanceKM = distanceMeters / 1000
        let roundedTwoDigit = distanceKM.roundedTwoDigit
        return roundedTwoDigit

    }

If you want only two digits:

extension Double{

    var roundedTwoDigit:Double{

        return Double(round(100*self)/100)

        }
    }

Solution 4:

If you're going to do with 2 CLLocationCoordinate2D values then you can use this.

This is Swift 2.1 on Xcode 7.1

import CoreLocation

extension CLLocationCoordinate2D {

    func distanceInMetersFrom(otherCoord : CLLocationCoordinate2D) -> CLLocationDistance {
        let firstLoc = CLLocation(latitude: self.latitude, longitude: self.longitude)
        let secondLoc = CLLocation(latitude: otherCoord.latitude, longitude: otherCoord.longitude)
        return firstLoc.distanceFromLocation(secondLoc)
    }

}

Solution 5:

The problem here is that you're calling an object method:

- (CLLocationDistance)distanceFromLocation:(const CLLocation *)location;

of class CLLocation.

CLLocationCoordinate2D is in fact a structure, consisting of two doubles:

typedef struct
{
    CLLocationDegrees latitude;
    CLLocationDegrees longitude;
} CLLocationCoordinate2D;

Proper way of doing this is to get a CLLocation object and call distanceFromLocation on it. Like this:

CLLocation* newLocation;
CLLocation* oldLocation;
CLLocationDistance distance = [newLocation distanceFromLocation:oldLocation];

Of course you first need to initialize both of those values (from CLLocationManager, for instance).