I want to sort out an array according to the user's location in an AngularJS/ionic app. More precisely, the idea is to rank restaurants that would be the closest to the current user location
1/ in my controller.js
, I have the following code that gets the user's current geocordinates :
var onSuccess = function(position) {
alert('Latitude: ' + position.coords.latitude + '\n' +
'Longitude: ' + position.coords.longitude + '\n' +
'Altitude: ' + position.coords.altitude + '\n' +
'Accuracy: ' + position.coords.accuracy + '\n' +
'Altitude Accuracy: ' + position.coords.altitudeAccuracy + '\n' +
'Heading: ' + position.coords.heading + '\n' +
'Speed: ' + position.coords.speed + '\n' +
'Timestamp: ' + position.timestamp + '\n');
console.log(position.coords.latitude )
console.log(position.coords.longitude)
};
function onError(error) { // onError Callback receives a PositionError object
alert('code: ' + error.code + '\n' +
'message: ' + error.message + '\n');
}
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(onSuccess, onError);
2/ I use the following controller to display a list of restaurants :
// RESTAURANTLIST CONTROLLER
.controller('restaurantlistController', function ($scope, $rootScope, restaurantsFactory) {
"use strict";
$scope.restaurantList = restaurantsFactory.getRestaurants();
})
3/ Restaurants are stored in a local factory :
angular.module('wmapp.factory_restaurants', [])
.factory('restaurantsFactory', function () {
"use strict";
var factory = {
Restaurants : [
{Name: 'RestA', address: '45 Avenue Ledru-Rollin', cp: '75012', city: 'Paris', country: 'France', lat: 48.8482040, lng: 2.3706140, icon: 'local_icons.restaurantIcon'},
{Name: 'RestB', address: '3 Rue Mansart', cp: '75009 ', city: 'Paris', country: 'France', lat: 48.8820390, lng: 2.3333150, icon: 'local_icons.restaurantIcon'},
{Name: 'RestC', address: '41, rue Saint-André des Arts', cp: '75006', city: 'Paris', country: 'France', lat: 48.8532490, lng: 2.3409810, icon: 'local_icons.restaurantIcon'}
// more restaurant
],
getRestaurants : function () {
return factory.Restaurants;
},
getRestaurant : function (itemid) {
var Restaurant = {};
angular.forEach(factory.Restaurants, function (value, key) {
if (value.itemid === itemid) {
Restaurant = value;
}
});
return Restaurant;
}
};
return factory;
});
4/ Question: How do I rank and display in my HTML restaurants by closest to the user (possibly indicating distance in meters to the user's location? )
<ion-list>
<ion-item ng-controller="loadingCtrl" bindonce ng-repeat= "restaurant in restaurantList " href="#">
<article class="item_frame">
<img class="item_icon_circled" src="img/restauranticonv1redcircled.png">
<h1 class="item_name_english2">{{restaurant.Name}}</h1>
<span class="item_description">{{restaurant.subCuisine}}</span>
<span class="item_description">{{restaurant.venueType}}</span>
<span class="item_description">{{restaurant.subsubCuisine}}</span>
<span class="item_description">{{restaurant.address}}</span>
<span class="item_description">{{restaurant.cp}}</span>
<span class="item_description">{{restaurant.city}}</span>
</article><!--main article frame 1 -->
</ion-item>
</ion-list>
1) create a javascript restaurant
class
2) give the restaurant class a distanceFrom(lat, long)
function
3) adapt your factory to return restaurant
s rather than object
s
4) sort list of restaurant
s by the distanceFrom
function
function Restaurant(name, lat, long) {
this.name = name;
this.lat = lat;
this.long = long;
this.distanceFrom = function(long_from, lat_from) {
return calculateDistanceBetween(this.lat, this.long, lat_from, long_from);
}
}
usage:
var myPosition = { lat: 50.0123, long: 49.4321 };
var someRestaurant = new Restaurant('The food', 51.1231, 48.213312);
var howFar = someRestaurant.distanceFrom(myPostion.lat, myPosition.long);
for a javascript sample of getting distance between two latitude/ logitude pairs, see here: How do I calculate distance between two latitude-longitude points?
Found and implemented solution on Plunker
controller.js:
var wmapp = angular.module('wmapp', ['wmapp.factory_restaurants','greatCircles'])
// RESTAURANTLIST CONTROLLER
.controller('restaurantlistController', function ($scope, $rootScope, restaurantsFactory,position,GreatCircle) {
"use strict";
$scope.restaurantList = restaurantsFactory.getRestaurants(); //call to restaurantfactory
$scope.position = position;
$scope.distanceTo = function(restaurant) {
var distance = GreatCircle.distance( restaurant.long,restaurant.lat, position.longitude, position.latitude)
restaurant.distance = distance;
distance = distance.toFixed(1);
return distance;
}
})
.factory('position', function( $rootScope ){
console.log('building position')
var position = {};
// 1ST / AUTO GEOLOCATION OF USER
// displays a popup to indicate current user location - (disabled)
// onSuccess Callback - This method accepts a Position object, which contains the current GPS coordinates
var onSuccess = function(position2) {
console.log(position2.coords.latitude )
console.log(position2.coords.longitude)
position.latitude = position2.coords.latitude;
position.longitude = position2.coords.longitude;
$rootScope.$digest()
};
function onError(error) { // onError Callback receives a PositionError object
alert('code: ' + error.code + '\n' +
'message: ' + error.message + '\n');
}
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(onSuccess, onError);
return position;
})