On 01/17/2015 02:07 AM, James E. Lang wrote:
Highly technical issue:
I have a spreadsheet that, among other things, contains street addresses. I
need to
determine the driving distance between pairs of addresses. From within Calc,
how can I use
a site on the internet (i.e. Open Street Maps, Google Maps, MapQuest, etc.) to
determine the
driving distance between two such street addresses? I suspect that I will need
a user defined
function such as DRDIST(from, to) to accomplish this but I don't know how to go
about
writing such a function.
With A1 containing the address 2345 Weldon and another address being hard coded
as
4453 N Ashcroft I envision invoking this function as
=DRDIST(A1&", Fresno, CA", "4453 N Ashcroft, Fresno, CA")
and the result, in miles, would be something like 5.2. (Both of these addresses
where I lived
as a child no longer exist but I use them as examples of how the function would
be invoked.)
It would be great if someone already has a function to accomplish this task and
if it can be
shared with me. If that is not the case, then I will probably need a lot of
assistance to create
such a function which can then be shared with the LO Calc community.
If you already can access Google Maps, then you can use that directly to plan a
route and find the driving distance,
also, I believe, estimated driving time. I'm not sure that Google would approve
of this application without paying them
a royalty.
--doug
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