Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc: Using Internet Sites to Determine Driving Distances

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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