How to calculate Driving Distance Matrix on Excel using Bing Maps API
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2024
- This is a small tutorial video on how to generate a distance matrix on excel using Bing Maps API. Everything is explained in detail. This video is extremely useful for a Supply chain professional who is trying to perform Vehicle routing / Network analysis / Logistic cost analysis / Location Planning / Logistics Planning. It provides the road distance along the best routes considering traffic.
Link for GetDistance formula: drive.google.c... (for windows version)
This may not work in Mac OS, due to limitations of Apple Mac.
If you need Travel time aswell, post this below code in your vba window and use GetTravelTime formula in the same format as GetDistance as explained in the video.
drive.google.c...
output will be travel time in minutes
If you are getting an error, it means the formula is not giving you any relevant information.
Here are the general reasons which I know result in such errors. (in the order of the likelihood)
1. If you are using a macbook. The Excel in macbook does not have a web service function, which is essential for Excel to talk to the internet.
2. If you are using Windows, but on a work laptop where Excel application may not have access to the Internet service. To validate if this is the case, I suggest trying the Webservice function to see if you are getting a relevant output. If you are getting an output, this may not be the reason. And if you are not getting the output, this is the issue and you need to talk to your IT admin or do this on your personal laptop. Reference: exceljet.net/e...
3. If you are sure 1&2 are not the reasons, There could be an error in the source coordinates and destination coordinates or the Bing key that is inserted into the GetDistance formula. Request you to kindly revisit the video and verify.
4. You need to save the file in .xlsm format.
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You have help me a lot ! I’m making a cost sheet , using Kilometers from every city from state of São Paulo
Excellent hemant, just one observation though - Since api keys have limits, every call is precious. Hence filling only the upper half of the diagonal would have been wise. Also from efficient programming perspective it is important
Dear Mr.Hemanth, It was a useful App. We have around 25 rows and columns in our Application. The macro works correctly upto 12 rows and columns. From 13th row and column, there is a difference of at the least 2 Kms. Please guide us.
Regards,
S.Saravanan
Very structured & elaborate explanation. Must watch for all aspiring learners.
Good work Hemanth Boddapu... expecting more videos from you..
Thank you Hemanth. Lucid explanation and a very useful tool. Much appreciated
Thankyou sir
THANK YOU! You did miss that input for Source and Destination coordinates. Also you could have clarified the best way to get the coordinates in the database tab. OTHERWISE, this is an excellent video and I really appreciate it!
thank you very much for the knowledge. you've helped me in many ways.
This is exactly what i needed. Thank you for explaining very clearly
Hi there! Thank you for this great piece of code, it helped me a lot. However, i'm having a small issue. The code was running perfectly well yesterday. However, men reopening the xlsm file today, and trying to use the getdistance function, I get the error: #NAME?. Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you.
Thank you Hemanth for such insightful videos
Awesome...I need to hit like button for tonnes but have to satisfy with 1 only..✌
Thankyou buddy 🤟🏻
Wow I tried not knowing if it’d work because I’ve never coded in VBA and I did a couple mistakes that I was able to detect and understand watching my code and yours (mostly cells placements). I used the time instead of the distance. It is incredibly satisfying watching the code fill all the cells in the matrix. I started in Mac but the getdistance formula didn’t work. I’ll try it later to see if something wasn’t correct. What bugged me is that every version of office uses different separators, you used a , and I had to change it to a ; so probably it’s the same problem with Mac. Anyway, thanks so much for the video, it was so nice!
Hey.. the issue with mac is that excel in mac cannot talk to internet. Pls try with windows. I've mentioned the same in the description box
Hi Hemanth, this is a wonderful video. It really saved a huge amount of time for me.
This is amazing and very, very helpful for me. Thanks a lot for the well elaborated explanation.
Good work. This exactly what was looking for. Keep up.
right now the calculation automatically grabs the shortest distance and not the interstate distance. how could I change the VBS Module to show the shortest interstate distance? But thank you very much for this so far
Hey
Great work! I used your code for two years now. But with the change to Azure Maps I don't get this think working anymore... can you make a new video where you explain how to use Azure Maps API instead of Bing Maps?
Awesome sir!
Helped a lot during SIP... Thank you so much!
Hello Hemanth, this is really very helpful and a great tool - thank you for that! Can you also advise, on how to get coordinates (latitude and longitude) back from bing maps for given locations? This would be very helpful, in case you need coordinates for many addresses (comparable to the list of locations you put into the "database sheet"). Many thanks for any advice! Karsten
I had this problem and used power query web connector
Good work bro....working perfectly....
Lovely work Hemanth
Keep up the good work ❣️
Hi Mr. Boddapu. Firstly, I really appreciate the time you spent recording this video. It was really important for my understanding when it comes to create a distance matrix.
I have a question, if I have 12 locations, I think the total number os distances would be 144 (12*12) instead of 66, am I right?
Cheers from Brazil!
yes 144, that's correct
Thanks for the Video! But how do i get the field like B11 and which are necessary for the automasation to fill out the Matrix??
Very Helpful video, Thank you !
Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷
Thanks Hemanth, Very helpful
Great work Hemanth !
This works perfectly, Thank you so much Hemanth. When im working on a larger data set it takes quite a lot of time for it to fetch the distance, is there any work around for that?
TIA.
Hi! I used the formula and everything worked perfectly well for a while. Now, excel isn't recognizing the formula anymore. Do you have any advice on how to solve this?
I want to do something similar. I want to know the distance travelled by the train from station A to station B. Please tell me how to do it.
This code is working for India's coordinates. But it is not working for USA coordinates.
Please help.
Genial! Gracias muy útil y muy bien explicado!
Thank you for this great video. Would it be possible to also provide the associated GetTravelTime code? Much appreciated
Hi, excellent tutorial. Would you help me .the negative coordinates of the error how do I?? positive coordinates works. thanks🙂
Hi ... i cant create a bing key. It s not working anymore...any help?
Hi, your video helped me a lot in my client deliverable. Thanks a ton.
Is there a possibility to get the travel time for a particular date and time? I am looking to calculate travel time for historical date and time
Thank you so much for providing this video
Hemanth - please please can you tell me how to make bing maps return the longest distance between two points.
Hi.. Can we get the distances by pincode to pincode
lastVal = "&travelMode=driving&o=xml&key=" & key & "&distanceUnit=mi" if for meters than what will be correct code instead of miles
Hello, I found your video very helpful for my project, I am a master's degree student. I had some issues linking the geographical coordinates to the distance Matrix like you did, can you explain to me or send me the excel file you did the demonstration on UA-cam? so I can refer to that to build my own matrix?
Thank you your help will be really appreciated.
I tried it and i doesn't work. Variable not defined.
Why we used this all it's all available in map when we enter two cities distance in map it's showing
What if i don't have the coordinates?
This is awesome! Thank you
Hello , Thanks for this tutorial
can i ask about something
Q1:why ther's diffrence between bing maps and Google maps
Ex: two cordination ( lat,long) in bing maps : 16 Km -- Google maps : 13
Q2:some times result returned from bing maps doesn't exact the result already in bing maps if you switched to bing maps and tried to get direction to comapre result in excel file with data in bing maps
thanks in advance
Desde Mexico.... funciona al 100%
Thank you for the video. Please how can we get the travel time instead of the distance?
Very simple, in the code i have attached, towards the end of the code, there is a phrase "//TravelDistance". You need to replace it with "//TravelDuration" and remove 1.609 multiplier
@@HEMANTHHEMU86 Thank you. It works :)
@@HEMANTHHEMU86 thank you for great video. is it possible to calculate walking distance instead of driving distance?
@@younessfrichi2156 Hello!! I also want to calculate the travel time. Could you please give me some reference coding for calculating the travel time instead of travel distance?
how to do this between pincodes within the city?
Hemant thanks a lot. Its helping a lot. Like function GetDistance can you help with GetTime as well?
Can you share the link....of the code pls......hyperlink is missing
Much appreciated it was very helpful, I was looking for this formula too many weeks and my manager he was very impressed about it 🤍
Hi How did you connect database to sheet one. Can someone please help me out with the formula.
Hello great tutorial!!
I noticed that it considers the Highways, how can I not consider them in the search?
Thank you
Hi! great job! The code is working but not for every city. I am having trouble with cities in Asia, more specifically within China, Japan and Korea Could you help me with that?? Regards, Alejandra
followed all the steps, still after using formula excel is returning #value! error, may i know how can it be resolved
same
Great video brother, Very helpful for me... Can you tell how to convert this Excel data into numpy array?
Thanks but I follow your instruction but GetDistance formula not shown in Excel-2019
Awesome - thank you!!
Omg man , awesome work
Excel returned #value! when computing for the Distance. Followed the procedure. Concactenate and keys are correct. May i know if this is common issue and if it can be resolved. Thanks.
If you are using excel on windows, this should not occur. once revisit the steps i have mentioned and make sure internet is active. Let me know
Same error with me how can we know if this not getting blocked due to some firewall issue etc
@@reaper_gaming_live pls follow the steps. It works
I think error is due to the concatenate function. I used the cancat function but Hemanth used the & sign while getting the X Y coordinates....Kindly explain the destination and source coordinates please.
I was having the same issue. It happens that I use metric system in my pc, in which the decimals are separeted with a coma, not a point. I changed these parameters in the options tab and it worked!
hi it was used full to me but it is not working on my excell
pls give excel which is red to used
Juest amazing, you save me two days of work, just an small question, for big volume of data, the formula gives me #value message, any ideas? thanks in advance
hi Hemanth, thank you very much for sharing such an useful tutorial, great work. I would like to know whether you have a tutorial for calculating air distance
Also, one more query, what is the base for calculating travel time - like is it based on speed limits of the roads or peak time / off peak time traffic on the roads
time is given by Bing, based on the traffic data. just like Google provides on estimated time.
Hi Hemmath, is the distance calculated over the road or in a straight line? Either way, thank you for the tutorial!
Just for others' sake - the description states 'It provides the road distance along the best routes considering traffic'
Hey, why the marix is not symmetric ?
Can we draw route line inside the excel bing map for to make travelling salesman problem?
Thanks for this Video ...
Hello Hemanth,
In my pc excel 2013 / office 365, formula "=getdistance" is not showing
Can you please help me how can I resolve this issue?
I have provided a peice of VBA code in the description. Please do paste it in your vba window.
Very nice, thank you. Can this be done with HTTPS instead of HTTP?
Thanks great help, can u check the same can be converted into AddIn, i was unable to do it
ua-cam.com/video/XnZ1Vz4GvqY/v-deo.html, this would be helpful
Hello Hemanth, can you help me to make vba code for calculate distance and travel time without toll usage in BingMaps?
It is not mapping the distance which you was taken an another excel sheet2. How we can merge into excel sheet 1?
my excel shows the error Sub distMatrix does not define, what is the problem?
Amazing! Thank you!!
Awsome dude 😮
hello Hemanth, can we do the same giving lat and long instead of name of cities? how?
Hemanth I hope you're well. This is an excellent tutorial, thank you. Unfortunately, I keep getting #NAME? error when running the GetDistance macro. Any suggestions? Thanks again. Syh
Good evening,I am from Kolkata.Thank you very much for this excellent video you have uploaded. I really appreciate your Distance Matrix API. But it is difficult to find out how to bring source coordinates from sheet 2 which is automatically change when I am giving source location as well as source destination, due to that I couldn't completed it though I have got get distance from VBA code.Due to that I couldn't proceed further if you illustrate me then I will be grateful to you. Which formula do I need to take from excel-functions.It is my earnest request if you do the needful at the earliest. Please treat this on an urgent basis. Thank you very much.
this is amazing, thanks a lot :)
Hi Hemanth! Thank you for sharing!! I have a few questions I think you could help. For the application in excel that I'm developping I need the distances to be showed in meters and with the most accuracy possible. Reading your code I understod that the distances are being calculated in miles and rounded to no decimals. Am I right? If your answer is yes, could you help me to do these adjustments? Thank you very much!
Hi, it's me again! Reading the code with more attention I realized that you already converted the dimensions to meters and I changed de round rule. Thanks
Thanks for your video clip
It is very useful, but Im facing a error actually my all study locations are within of 4 km range. I need accurate ans in upto 2 decimal.
In the code i have given, there is an equation similar to the one i have pasted below. Just replace this line with the existing line to get a more accurate reading.
GetDistance = Round(Round(WorksheetFunction.FilterXML(objHTTP.ResponseText, "//TravelDistance"), 3) * 1.609, 2)
@@HEMANTHHEMU86 Thank you very
I LOVE YOU
excellent video
Excellent👍
can this method be used for 80 locations?
How to get the coordinates for any locations using API. It is really difficult to get lat & long for every locations manually. Please guide me.
It's not difficult. There are Google and Bing APIs for that
im getting a theres a problem with this formula error. Can you help me please
I solved, put ; instead of , on your getdistance formula.
Thanks dude.
Hi, thanks.
In small distance it works not good, because when I have 4,5km it shows me 5km..
Can u make a video how to get the minutes from the distance.
In the code i have given, there is an equation similar to the one i have pasted below. Just replace this line with the existing line to get a more accurate reading.
GetDistance = Round(Round(WorksheetFunction.FilterXML(objHTTP.ResponseText, "//TravelDistance"), 3) * 1.609, 2)
@@HEMANTHHEMU86
Thanks great work. It is possible to calculate the travel time with car in excel ?
@@Topcommi yes travel time is possible
@@HEMANTHHEMU86 is it possible to do this for public transport too?
Thank You
Good video !!
Hi, I really love your tutorials, but why do I get the output "-1" instead of the real travel distance? I already did exactly the same as shown in your video. Thank you
i am guessing, in the input data, some formatting might be needed
@@HEMANTHHEMU86hi i am also getting the same error. I checked the formatting it's same as yours. Still getting -1 as the output. Please help
Hi, your video is really helpful. However, I don't know how to obtain the longitude and latitude from Bing Maps. Can you create a video how to do that, please?
in excel you can write the location in a cell (es. Rome), than select the cell that contain the location, go to data-->data types-->geography and extrapolate latitude and longitude clicking on small icon that appears next the location cell. In a third column you can use the function =concat(cell latitude, "," ,cell longitude) and you have the coordinate of location
how can we get the distance in meters?
How to get coordinate automatically trough excel?
it is throwing an error "invalid outside procedure". Please Help
The tool is great however, can we get the longitude and latitude automatically from bing maps or google maps? As, for all 1000 plus service locations we cannot manually input them right?
If you mean getting coordinates from addresses, there are similar ways to do it. But it's accuracy is low.. i have observed it gets offset by 10-12 kms sometimes
@@HEMANTHHEMU86 If thats the case then for each and every address there needs to be an input provided manually. Please share further insight by mailing me on swaaditya@gmail.com. I would be of great help as am trying to work on route optimization in my project as well
After you copy and paste key password on the cell B9 then automatically appeared word "KEY" on cell A9. How do it?
It was not automatic.. i have written it in that cell.. i have fast forwarded the video at bit over thete