Episerver Find GeoLocation Distance

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I am currently working on a project that we are filtering results based on the distance from a given location. e.g Searching for Bristol and it returns locations within a 10 mile radius.

Is there a way to get the distance value for how far away a location is from the search location? e.g Bristol, Bedminster geolocation is 1.76 miles away from Bristol geolocation

Thanks

#183250
Oct 09, 2017 17:58
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Not sure if a Find hit object exposes it but if not you can just use .NET GeoCoordinate.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.device.location.geocoordinate.getdistanceto.aspx

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6366408/calculating-distance-between-two-latitude-and-longitude-geocoordinates

#183464
Oct 16, 2017 0:08
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Thanks for your post. This is what I have implemented so far, was just hoping that there was a way to get it from find itself, as you can sort them by distance.

#183490
Oct 16, 2017 13:44
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Found this post while also searching for the same answer. There is now a GeoCoordinate class in the Episerver.Personalization namespace that has a GetDistanceTo method. Unfortunately the types are mismatched, but you can do the following (in long hand for clarity):

const double MetersToMilesRatio = 0.00062137;
var currentLocation = new GeoCoordinate(geo.Latitude, geo.Longitude);
var toLocation = new GeoCoordinate(x.Latitude, x.Longitude);
var distance = Math.Round(currentLocation.GetDistanceTo(toLocation) * MetersToMilesRatio, 3);
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Mar 16, 2022 16:25
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