1 /// <summary>
 2 /// returns driving distance in kilometers
 3 /// </summary>
 4 /// <param name="origin"></param>
 5 /// <param name="destination"></param>
 6 /// <returns></returns>
 7 public static double GetDrivingDistanceInKilometers(string origin, string destination)
 8 { 
 9 string url = @"http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/xml?origins=" + 
10 origin + "&destinations=" + destination + 
11 "&mode=driving&sensor=false&language=en-EN&units=imperial";
12 
13 HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
14 WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
15 Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
16 StreamReader sreader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
17 string responsereader = sreader.ReadToEnd();
18 response.Close();
19 
20 XmlDocument xmldoc = new XmlDocument();
21 xmldoc.LoadXml(responsereader);
22 
23 
24 if (xmldoc.GetElementsByTagName("status")[0].ChildNodes[0].InnerText == "OK")
25 { 
26 XmlNodeList distance = xmldoc.GetElementsByTagName("distance");
27 var miledistance = Convert.ToDouble(distance[0].ChildNodes[1].InnerText.Replace(" mi", ""));
28 var kmdistance = (miledistance * 1.609344).toFixed(1);
29 return kmdistance;
30 }
31 
32 return 0;
33 }