Question

Basically i have a users current location. i then have a list of co-ordinates.

How would i go about calculating the nearest set of co-ordinates from the list against the users current location. My application is written in java for hthe android platform

Answer 1

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/Location.html

Location location = new Location("");
location.setLatitude(lat);
location.setLongitude(lon);

check for distanceTo or distanceBetween methods.

Or you can manually calculate the distance among the coordinates and find the smallest distance for calculating distance you can refer following link http://www.zipcodeworld.com/samples/distance.java.html