I am working on a graphical application. The graphical interface consists of a map with cities. Each city has an X and Y coordinate. Cities are stored in the HashMap as follows:
cities.put(new Coordinates(X, Y), "City Name");
Where X and Y are just some integers that represent the midpoint of the city. As if you need to mark a city with a circle, X and Y will represent the center of that circle.
It’s not difficult for me to get the coordinates of a mouse click. However, my problem is that I do not know how to search through HashMap and get the nearest city. No person can perfectly click on a specific X and a specific Y coordinate. Therefore, I must allow, for example, + 15.
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