{"id":271,"date":"2010-10-20T17:26:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T15:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/?p=271"},"modified":"2017-06-28T12:19:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T10:19:35","slug":"geodesix-geocoder-great-circle-distance-and-google-maps-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/2010\/10\/20\/geodesix-geocoder-great-circle-distance-and-google-maps-in-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"GeodesiX &#8211; Geocoder, Great Circle Distance and Google Maps in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Addin for Microsoft Excel which allows you to perform forward and reverse geocoding, both by address and latitude \/ longitude, calculate Great Circle Distances using Vincenty&#8217;s algorithm, calculate travel distances and durations and verify the results with a Google Maps Task Pane, all inside your comfortable Excel interface.<\/p>\n<p>This is useful for creating GoogleMap applications to find places from a list, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/geodesixsource\/offices.htm\">like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Implements three Excel formulas:<\/p>\n<p><strong>=Geocode(request, location)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong><\/strong>Request is the field to return:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>status<\/strong> The status of the geocode request (Fetching, OK, N matches, etc.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>latitude<\/strong> The latitude of &#8216;location&#8217;<\/li>\n<li><strong>longitude<\/strong> The longitude of &#8216;location&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>and so on: formatted_address, country political,administrative_area_level_1 political, administrative_area_level_2 political, administrative_area_level_3 political, locality political, sublocality political, route, street_number, postal_code, types, location_type, partial_match, point_of_interest, establishment, viewpointne, viewpointsw, airport establishment transit_station, bus_station transit_station, establishment, natural_feature, neighborhood political, postal_town, premise, street_address, subpremise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Location is the name or address of a place or point of interest<\/p>\n<p><strong>=GreatCircleDistance(latitude1, longitude1, latitude2, longitude2)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong><\/strong>Calculates the Great Circle Distance using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vincenty's_formulae\">Vincenty&#8217;s Formula<\/a>, with fallback to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haversine_formula\">Haversine formula<\/a> when Vincenty&#8217;s method doesn&#8217;t converge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>=Travel(request, origin, destination, mode)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong><\/strong>Calculates the distance or duration to get from origin to destination, according to Google Directions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Request is the field to return:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>distance<\/strong> The distance in metres from origin to destination<\/li>\n<li><strong>duration<\/strong> The estimated duration from origin to destination<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Origin and destination are the names or addresses of the start and finish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Mode is the mode of transport to use: Driving, Bicycling or Walking<\/p>\n<p>Free download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/geodesix\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot, click to enlarge:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/files\/2010\/10\/screenshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/screenshot-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/files\/2010\/10\/screenshot-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/files\/2010\/10\/screenshot-1024x714.jpg 1024w, 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