Using iPhone GPS to calculate total distance travelled by the user

[Super Terry Airlines]

Hi folks,

I am currently working on creating an iPhone app which, among many things, tracks the total distance a user has travelled during any sort of sports game. I am using HTML, CSS and Javascript to code the app. I want to use the iPhone's inbuilt GPS System to compute the total distance travelled.

I was thinking that I could firstly use the GPS to get the user's start position at 0 seconds (t = 0). Calculate the user's new psoition at a time interval (i.e. every 5 seconds) adding the distance travelled in that time to the original distance. I would repeat this loop until the user was finished their session.

However I am not the greatest programmer in the world. Therfore, any advice you could give me on coding this, presumably, in Javacript would be fantastic.

[dany_dev]

in javascript?

However yes, the right approach is to have an array of points from gps and calculate the total distance.

start reading...
CLLocationManager

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3...ated-correctly

[Super Terry Airlines]

Originally Posted by dany_dev

in javascript?

However yes, the right approach is to have an array of points from gps and calculate the total distance.

start reading...
CLLocationManager

iphone - distanceFromLocation - Total Distance not being calculated correctly - Stack Overflow

I'm coding my app in HTML, Javascript and CSS using Phone Gap in Xcode to change my app from a web app to a native application. I'm not the greatest programmer in the world and using Objective C is slightly beyond me.

Can I code this in Javascript?

[dany_dev]

check PhoneGap documentation
PhoneGap API Documentation