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<p>Every Google Earth user is going mad about path and distance: you can get Path or Distance but not both.<br />
This little snipset help you to get path AND distance.</p>
<ol>
	<li>Create your path as usual with Google Earth</li>
	<li>Save it as a .kml file (not .kmz)</li>
	<li>Run the this script</li>
</ol>

<p>The current version <strong>is KML 2.2</strong></p>

<table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="code" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2NvZGV9&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="PLAIN_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><pre> /**
 * Compute distance in Google Earth KML path file from a path
 * @author Marc DEXET ( marcdexet [at] gmail [dot] org )
*/
class Point {
    def lat
    def lon
    public Point(){}

public Point(String gps) {
        def xyz = gps.tokenize(',');
        lat = Double.parseDouble( xyz[1] )
        lon = Double.parseDouble( xyz[0] )
    }
    public String toString() {
        return "LAT: ${lat} LON: ${lon}"
    }

public static double distance(Point p0, Point p1) {
        return Haversine.compute(p0, p1)
    }
}

/**
 * List of Points
 */
class PointList {
    def points
    def distance
    def partiels = []

public PointList( List points ) {
        this.points = points
        compute()
    }

void compute() {
        def nbPointList = points.size()
        distance = 0;
        partiels = []
        for( idx in 1..(nbPointList-1) ) {
            def p0 = points[(idx-1)]
            def p1 = points[idx]
            def dist = Point.distance(p0,p1)
            partiels &lt;&lt; dist
            distance = distance+dist
        }
    }

}
/**
 * Haversine algorithmus
 * (thanks to http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html)
 */
class Haversine {
    static double R = 6371

static double compute(Point p1, Point p2) {
        def dLat = Math.toRadians(p2.lat-p1.lat);
        def dLon = Math.toRadians(p2.lon-p1.lon);
        def a = Math.sin(dLat/2) * Math.sin(dLat/2) +
                Math.cos( Math.toRadians(p1.lat) ) *
                Math.cos( Math.toRadians(p2.lat) ) * Math.sin(dLon/2) * Math.sin(dLon/2);
        def c = 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1-a));
        def d = R * c;
        return d
    }

}

class KmlParser {
    static ns = new groovy.xml.Namespace("http://earth.google.com/kml/2.2", 'ns')
    List parse( Object input ) {
            def kml = new groovy.util.XmlParser().parse( input );
            def coords = kml[ ns.Document ][ ns.Placemark ][ ns.LineString ][ ns.coordinates ].text()
            def myList = coords.tokenize();
            def points = []
            myList.each{ gestring -> points &lt;&lt; new Point(gestring) }
            return points;
    }
}

// Application

def kmlParser = new KmlParser()
def points = kmlParser.parse( args[0] )
def PointList pointList = new PointList( points )
def partiels = pointList.partiels;
def distance = pointList.distance;

java.text.DecimalFormat f = new java.text.DecimalFormat( "0.000" );
java.text.DecimalFormat n = new java.text.DecimalFormat( "00" );
println "Distance totale: ${f.format(distance)} km"
partiels.eachWithIndex { d, i ->
    println "${n.format(i)}) ${f.format(d)} km"
}
</pre></td></tr></table>
<h2>Archives</h2>

<table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="code" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2NvZGV9&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="PLAIN_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><pre>/**
 * Compute distance in Google Earth KML path file from a path
 * @author Marc DEXET ( marcdexet [at] gmail [dot] org )
*/
class Point {
    def lat
    def lon
    public Point(){}