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[Resolved] Calculating the distance between two locations

This thread is resolved. Here is a description of the problem and solution.

Problem:

The issue here is that the user wanted to calculate the distance between 2 points on our Toolset Maps plugin.

Solution:

Unfortunately for the calculation this is not something that I can assist with as it would require some custom coding and this is out of the scope of our support forum.

However what you can do is to contact one of our registered contractors for assistance on this one.
https://toolset.com/contractors/

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Last updated by gavinS-2 6 years, 7 months ago.

Assisted by: Shane.

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#897210

I have two custom post types: parties and profiles.

Parties has a field 'venue' and profiles has a field 'location'.

I now want to calculate the distance between the two points. How does Toolset store the location?

From what I can tell the location is stored as a string of the address, not as a lat/long value. Is this right? Do I need to query the Google Map API to get the actual values and do the calculation, or is there an easier way?

#898230

Shane
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Hi Gavin,

Thank you for contacting our support forum.

Actually it is stored as a string in the address field.

Unfortunately for the calculation this is not something that I can assist with as it would require some custom coding and this is out of the scope of our support forum.

However what you can do is to contact one of our registered contractors for assistance on this one.
https://toolset.com/contractors/

Thanks,
Shane

#900881

Thanks Shane, that's what I thought.