calculate distance and duration using google map

Hi,

What co-ordinate system will be using for the locations?

Originally Posted by liorom

no co-ordinate , just name the origin city and destination city. thanks

If you could indicate how you would calculate or get your answer without the aid of Excel, i.e. understand your thought process maybe we could replicate that in Excel.

Otherwise why not use one of the many calculators on the web. e.g. http://www.distancecalculator.net/

Hi,

If you're saying that you want to do this without holding any information in the workbook and want to obtain it from a web site then you'll need to find a web site that lists this information and then use an Excel Data Connection to grab the data when you enter two cities.

Otherwise one way or another you will need to have either a 2 dimensional matrix of all the cities/towns you're interested in with the names as both column labels and row labels and the distance between them at the intersection. i.e. the usual sort of triangular matrix you see in road atlases.

Or you could pick an arbitrary city and in a two column list list all cities in the first column and the distance to the arbitrary city in the column alongside. Then once Excel knows the two cities you're interested in it could use Pythagoras's theorem to work out the distance between the two - ignoring the inevitable small error because the surface is actually on a sphere rather than a flat plane.

Use this code as a macro, then use =getgoogledistance for distance, =getgoogletraveltime for travel time.

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