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JavaScript Using the Geolocation API in JavaScript

chris ingvartsen
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Posted by chris ingvartsen
chris ingvartsen
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How do i sort location by nearest?

If i were to save the lat and lon values in a SQL database and foreach over them to return the locations. How would i order them by nearest? I cant figure this out!

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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I"m not sure how SQL comes into this, but if you're using "forEach" it sounds like you're working with an array. In that case, you could use the ".sort()" method with a custom compare function.

Your compare function could use the standard formula for distance calculation (sqrt(deltax**2 + deltay**2)) and then subtract the distances to create the sorting order.