How to know person is inside or outside of given pairs of lat long.

Hi all,

I am stuck up at one problem. I have few pairs of lat long which is creating closed boundary/fence on a map. Now I want to know whether person is inside that fence or not ?
How can I know that ?

Is there any api available or any algorithm is there or not ?

You would have to first get the lat/long of the person's location. After that it is simple arithmetic.

Peter Johnson wrote:You would have to first get the lat/long of the person's location. After that it is simple arithmetic.

Yea I have person's current location. I would like to know about the algorithm

You're looking for something like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4901959/find-if-a-point-is-inside-a-convex-hull-for-a-set-of-points-without-computing-th

Hardik Trivedi wrote:Yea I have person's current location. I would like to know about the algorithm

You're kidding, right??? Have you tried visualizing the situation using example long/lats for the box, and log/lat for a user who is inside and not inside the box? Draw it out on a piece of paper if you need to. Or take a simpler case with a simple graph using X and Y coordinates using vertical and horizontal lines and the person being a point inside or outside the box. Of course, this ignores the possibility that the box encompasses either the north or the south pole, then the algorithm gets more complex.

I think that choosing the word "box" was unfortunate, as it strongly suggests a rectangle. However the original post said

I have few pairs of lat long which is creating closed boundary/fence on a map.

Note that "few" is not necessarily "two". So there's some kind of polygon involved but it's not necessarily a rectangle.

The title says "given pairs of lat long", so I assumed that Hardik had two longitudes and two latitudes, which then described a rectangle (or at least, as close to a rectangle that you can be on a sphere). Of course, if that is not what Hardik wanted, then I guess my comments don't really help!