Converting Distance to miles in Google Maps Javascript API

Question

Im working on a simple "as the crow flies" distance calculator in Google Maps and im stuck trying to convert the returned distance between two points into miles. Is there an easy way to this?

I am fairly new at this and appreciate any and all help.

Here is where i am at currently:

http://www.public.asu.edu/~tpeiffer/

Answer 1

It appears that the computeDistanceBetween function returns distances in meters – to convert to miles, just multiply by the number of miles in a meter:

result *= 0.000621371192;