Current and upcoming wide-field surveys for weak gravitational lensing and
the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect will generate mass-selected catalogs of dark m
atter halos with internal or follow-up photometric redshift information. Us
ing the shape of the linear power spectrum as a standard ruler that is cali
brated by cosmic microwave background measurements, we find that a survey o
f 4000 deg(2) and a mass threshold of 10(14) M-. can be used to determine t
he comoving angular diameter distance as a function of redshift. In princip
le, this test also allows an absolute calibration of the distance scale and
measurement of the Hubble constant. This test is largely insensitive to th
e details of halo mass measurements, mass function, and halo bias. Determin
ation of these quantities would further allow a measurement of the linear g
rowth rate of fluctuations.