下面是移植到Java的已接受的答案实现，以备任何人需要。

package com.project529.garage.util;


/**
 * Mean radius.
 */
private static double EARTH_RADIUS = 6371;

/**
 * Returns the distance between two sets of latitudes and longitudes in meters.
 * <p/>
 * Based from the following JavaScript SO answer:
 * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27928/calculate-distance-between-two-latitude-longitude-points-haversine-formula,
 * which is based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haversine_formula (error rate: ~0.55%).
 */
public double getDistanceBetween(double lat1, double lon1, double lat2, double lon2) {
    double dLat = toRadians(lat2 - lat1);
    double dLon = toRadians(lon2 - lon1);

    double a = Math.sin(dLat / 2) * Math.sin(dLat / 2) +
            Math.cos(toRadians(lat1)) * Math.cos(toRadians(lat2)) *
                    Math.sin(dLon / 2) * Math.sin(dLon / 2);
    double c = 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1 - a));
    double d = EARTH_RADIUS * c;

    return d;
}

public double toRadians(double degrees) {
    return degrees * (Math.PI / 180);
}

function getDistanceFromLatLonInKm(lat1,lon1,lat2,lon2,units) {
  var R = 6371; // Radius of the earth in km
  var dLat = deg2rad(lat2-lat1);  // deg2rad below
  var dLon = deg2rad(lon2-lon1); 
  var a = 
    Math.sin(dLat/2) * Math.sin(dLat/2) +
    Math.cos(deg2rad(lat1)) * Math.cos(deg2rad(lat2)) * 
    Math.sin(dLon/2) * Math.sin(dLon/2)
    ; 
  var c = 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1-a)); 
  var d = R * c; 
  var miles = d / 1.609344; 

if ( units == 'km' ) {  
return d; 
 } else {
return miles;
}}

查克的解决方案，也适用于英里。

我不喜欢添加另一个答案，但谷歌地图API v.3具有球形几何(以及更多)。在将你的WGS84转换为十进制度后，你可以这样做:

<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false&libraries=geometry" type="text/javascript"></script>  

distance = google.maps.geometry.spherical.computeDistanceBetween(
    new google.maps.LatLng(fromLat, fromLng), 
    new google.maps.LatLng(toLat, toLng));

关于谷歌的计算有多精确，甚至使用了什么模型都没有任何消息(尽管它说的是“球面”而不是“大地水准面”。顺便说一下，“直线”距离显然不同于一个人在地球表面旅行的距离，而这似乎是每个人都在假设的。

精确计算中长点之间距离所需的函数是复杂的，陷阱也很多。我不推荐哈弗辛或其他球形的解决方案，因为有很大的不准确性(地球不是一个完美的球体)。vincenty公式更好，但在某些情况下会抛出错误，即使编码正确。

与其自己编写函数，我建议使用geopy，它已经实现了非常精确的地理库来进行距离计算(论文来自作者)。

#pip install geopy
from geopy.distance import geodesic
NY = [40.71278,-74.00594]
Beijing = [39.90421,116.40739]
print("WGS84: ",geodesic(NY, Beijing).km) #WGS84 is Standard
print("Intl24: ",geodesic(NY, Beijing, ellipsoid='Intl 1924').km) #geopy includes different ellipsoids
print("Custom ellipsoid: ",geodesic(NY, Beijing, ellipsoid=(6377., 6356., 1 / 297.)).km) #custom ellipsoid

#supported ellipsoids:
#model             major (km)   minor (km)     flattening
#'WGS-84':        (6378.137,    6356.7523142,  1 / 298.257223563)
#'GRS-80':        (6378.137,    6356.7523141,  1 / 298.257222101)
#'Airy (1830)':   (6377.563396, 6356.256909,   1 / 299.3249646)
#'Intl 1924':     (6378.388,    6356.911946,   1 / 297.0)
#'Clarke (1880)': (6378.249145, 6356.51486955, 1 / 293.465)
#'GRS-67':        (6378.1600,   6356.774719,   1 / 298.25)

这个库的唯一缺点是它不支持向量化计算。 对于向量化计算，您可以使用新的gevectorslib。

#pip install geovectorslib
from geovectorslib import inverse
print(inverse(lats1,lons1,lats2,lons2)['s12'])

lat和lon是numpy数组。Geovectorslib是非常准确和非常快!我还没有找到改变椭球的方法。标准采用WGS84椭球，是大多数用途的最佳选择。

仅限飞镖：

import 'dart:math' show cos, sqrt, asin;

double calculateDistance(LatLng l1, LatLng l2) {
  const p = 0.017453292519943295;
  final a = 0.5 -
      cos((l2.latitude - l1.latitude) * p) / 2 +
      cos(l1.latitude * p) *
          cos(l2.latitude * p) *
          (1 - cos((l2.longitude - l1.longitude) * p)) /
          2;
  return 12742 * asin(sqrt(a));
}

下面是VB的实现。NET，这个实现将根据您传递的Enum值以KM或Miles为单位给您结果。

Public Enum DistanceType
    Miles
    KiloMeters
End Enum

Public Structure Position
    Public Latitude As Double
    Public Longitude As Double
End Structure

Public Class Haversine

    Public Function Distance(Pos1 As Position,
                             Pos2 As Position,
                             DistType As DistanceType) As Double

        Dim R As Double = If((DistType = DistanceType.Miles), 3960, 6371)

        Dim dLat As Double = Me.toRadian(Pos2.Latitude - Pos1.Latitude)

        Dim dLon As Double = Me.toRadian(Pos2.Longitude - Pos1.Longitude)

        Dim a As Double = Math.Sin(dLat / 2) * Math.Sin(dLat / 2) + Math.Cos(Me.toRadian(Pos1.Latitude)) * Math.Cos(Me.toRadian(Pos2.Latitude)) * Math.Sin(dLon / 2) * Math.Sin(dLon / 2)

        Dim c As Double = 2 * Math.Asin(Math.Min(1, Math.Sqrt(a)))

        Dim result As Double = R * c

        Return result

    End Function

    Private Function toRadian(val As Double) As Double

        Return (Math.PI / 180) * val

    End Function

End Class