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I am trying to find the distance between our locations and our customer locations. Can someone please help me. I am wondering if there is a way MAPPOINT will tell me which location is closer and what the milage is? There are "many" customer locations.

I don't think you could do it without either some MapPoint or database programming. I think it would be more efficient in a database for many locations, but that might also require more expertise.

Exactly how many locations and customer locations do you have?

Eric

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Yes custom programming or a third party add-in.

Yes we sell such an addin
Our MileCharter product ( MileCharter: Home Page ) was originally written to find mileages (+travel times, and costs) from one group of locations (a pushpin set) and another - calculating all combinations. This would do what you want although an Excel macro would be required to pick the closest.

The Professional license of MileCharter can be told to report the closest only. So you can do calculations/queries along the lines of "only report the 3 closest locations that are also within 50 miles". Note that this is typically much faster as MileCharter is clever enough to only calculate routes which have a chance of being shorter than the existing best-so-far.

There's a free trial for 14 days - see link above.
Professional license is $100 (basic without this feature is $60)

Richard

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Hi Richard

is your add-in available as an activex component. i am developing a vb6 app which i need to calculate driving distances and routes between 2 uk post codes. I am wondering if you have an activex component or such like. thanks. I have mp2004 but can upgrade if need be.

ayo