I wonder whether anyone has solved this problem in the past?

I have a list of about 200 post codes, and for each of these I need to know the distance and traveling time from a central site (again I have the post code).

1) Does anyone know of a web service like www.viamichelin.com but which exposes an XML interface?

2) Is this something that I could do with AutoRoute?

3) Or a non-microsoft alternative to AutoRoute?

4) Has anyone used MapPoint? This sounds a bit like what I

Si,

Would be interested if there is a way of doing more than one at a time as I'm just about to start a similar piece of work. In the past I've had to do them one at a time in Multimap or similar - which does get a bit wearisome.

Jane

Autoroute should do this as I have autoroute 2002 and you can plan a route using Postcodes.

Autoroute should do this as I have autoroute 2002 and you can plan a route using Postcodes.

Cheers.

Do you know if there is a COM interface to this? IE, can I script it, or will it be one at a time?

See you at about 2030, BTW

I use Navigator and this also does this.

Used it on the cannonball run but didnt have euro postcodes :( Luckily we got a taxi to take us to the stage finish hotel in Barcelona !!

I think you need to talk to our esteemed webmaster. He was doing a thing where you input a postcode and it told you the distance to a fixed point eg Jabba and then was looking at one that gave you distance to dealers within an specified area of your "home" postcode

I use Mappoint all the time. It is expensive, but it's one of the perks of having an MSDN subscription I believe it'll do what you want, but I've not tried it - I usually use it to map out a journey, but it lets you put in your average speeds on different types of roads and is reasonably accurate.... I'll have a play with it and let you know.......

Also lets you plug in your GPS via COM port

Chris

I use Mappoint all the time. It is expensive, but it's one of the perks of having an MSDN subscription

I noticed that it comes free with an MSDN sub. I wonder if I can persuade work that that's what I need :rubchin:

I'll have a play with it and let you know.......

Ta muchly

You know that Mappoint is Autoroute (like a ++ version though with loads of added features)?

You could write a little harness prog which sits there skimming through your list routing and saving the results.

I think you need to talk to our esteemed webmaster. He was doing a thing where you input a postcode and it told you the distance to a fixed point eg Jabba and then was looking at one that gave you distance to dealers within an specified area of your "home" postcode

I wonder what service he was using *where's the Sherlock Holmes smiley when you need it?* Edit: :holmes:

You could write a little harness prog which sits there skimming through your list routing and saving the results.

Yes, but how to automate? :confused: And I'm not resorting to SendKeys! I've grown out of that

You need mappoint and the mappoint dev kit. It's great, one of the best product Microsoft bought

If you have an MSDN subscription just download it from https://msdn.one.microsoft.com if not then It aint all that cheap unfortunatly.

Yes, but how to automate? :confused: And I'm not[/b'] resorting to SendKeys! I've grown out of that

You will need to write a prog in C++ or Delphi - or if you can't program then you could use VB

The prog will go through a list (read from a file/spreadsheet whatever) and pass pairs of postcode to Mappoint + save the resultant miles + times to a file. All done automatically - no probs.

You will need to write a prog in C++ or Delphi - or if you can't program then you could use VB

The prog will go through a list (read from a file/spreadsheet whatever) and pass pairs of postcode to Mappoint + save the resultant miles + times to a file. All done automatically - no probs.

Yeah, I know how I would do it in MapPoint, (it exposes COM interfaces) but not whether AutoRoute would do it.

Anyway, I hacked a WebBrowser control together, built a querystring + post data and then did a:

JDistance = WB1.document.getElementById("itidist").innerHTML
JTime = WB1.document.getElementById("ititime").innerHTML

to read the answer. Not terribly elegant, but quick and free.

Oh, and I was brought up on C, but find that C++ is too much hassle for a simple hack, like this, and I'm too lazy to do all my array bounds checking myself (so I use VB).

So thank you, problem solved. And I didn't realise that MapPoint was sold seperately from its SDK. Is this the case?

Yeah - i think the sdk is free download from M$ but MapPoint @ 230 a pop is not