ruby on rails - get driving distance between two longitude latitude points

Question

I am trying to get driving distance between two longitude latitude points on rails, geocoder or any other efficient way.. Is there?

Answer 1

The Google Maps API v3 documentation specifies that either the origin or the destination (or waypoints) can be either an address or a google.maps.LatLng. To get the driving distance between two longitude/latitude points, pass them in the request as google.maps.LatLng objects.

related question: total distance and time for all waypoints in google maps v3

proof of concept fiddle

code snippet (based off the example in the documentation):

function initMap() {
  var directionsService = new google.maps.DirectionsService;
  var directionsDisplay = new google.maps.DirectionsRenderer;
  var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), {
    zoom: 7,
    center: {
      lat: 41.85,
      lng: -87.65
    }
  });
  directionsDisplay.setMap(map);
  // New York, NY, USA (40.7127837, -74.0059413)
  var start = new google.maps.LatLng(40.7127837, -74.0059413);
  //Baltimore, MD, USA (39.2903848, -76.6121893)
  var end = new google.maps.LatLng(39.2903848, -76.6121893);
  calculateAndDisplayRoute(start, end, directionsService, directionsDisplay);
}

function calculateAndDisplayRoute(start, end, directionsService, directionsDisplay) {
  directionsService.route({
    origin: start,
    destination: end,
    travelMode: google.maps.TravelMode.DRIVING
  }, function(response, status) {
    if (status === google.maps.DirectionsStatus.OK) {
      var totaldistance = 0;
      var route = response.routes[0];
      // display total distance information.
      for (var i = 0; i < route.legs.length; i++) {
        totaldistance = totaldistance + route.legs[i].distance.value;
      }
      document.getElementById('distance').innerHTML += "<p>total distance is " + (totaldistance / 1000).toFixed(2) + " km</p>";
      directionsDisplay.setDirections(response);
    } else {
      window.alert('Directions request failed due to ' + status);
    }
  });
}
google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, "load", initMap);

html,
body,
#map {
  height: 100%;
  width: 100%;
  margin: 0px;
  padding: 0px
}

<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=AIzaSyCkUOdZ5y7hMm0yrcCQoCvLwzdM6M8s5qk"></script>
<div id="distance"></div>
<div id="map"></div>