Finding nearby locations within a given radius in Android

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21359341

  •  02-10-2022
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Question

I have stored the location for different interesting places in my database. Now I have been trying to implement a button to "Show nearby places" (50km range).

I was wondering how to find the neighboring places within a given range from a selected location. I have taken a look at the GeoCoder class but I could not figure out how to do it.

Was it helpful?

Solution

For anyone interested, I ended up using PostreSQL and an extension called PostGIS. Places are saved to the database with a PostGIS geography special type column and geo calculations are then made using that data and the user's current location.

It seems to work just fine.

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