I am currently running Mappoint 2001 and will buy 2002 if it can do the following:
I want to plot routes for each of my 300 employees to five different work locations and export ONLY the distances for each to an excel spreadsheet. Can I do this in Mappoint 2002?
Joshua

This can be done quite easily. The code needed to extract distances is actually in the MapPoint 2002 Programming Reference, under the Distance Property section.

Here is the code:<form><textarea wrap="off" readonly="true" name="code" style="BORDER-BOTTOM: gray 1px inset; BORDER-LEFT: gray 1px inset; BORDER-RIGHT: gray 1px inset; BORDER-TOP: gray 1px inset; OVERFLOW: auto; WIDTH: 100%" rows="25" cols="40">Sub TotalRouteDistance()


Dim objApp As New MapPoint.Application
Dim objMap As MapPoint.Map
Dim objRoute As MapPoint.Route


'Set up application
Set objMap = objApp.ActiveMap
Set objRoute = objMap.ActiveRoute
objApp.Visible = True
objApp.UserControl = True


'Add route stops and calculate the route
objRoute.Waypoints.Add objMap.FindResults("Seattle, WA").Item(1)
objRoute.Waypoints.Add objMap.FindResults("Redmond, WA").Item(1)
objRoute.Calculate


'Output the total length of the route
MsgBox "The route distance is: " + CStr(objRoute.Distance)

End Sub
</textarea>
</form>

You can find the Programming Reference on http://msdn.microsoft.com/mappoint or in MapPoint 2002's Help.



This code then needs to be extended to save all calculated distances in an Excel workbook. Again, this is a simple programming task.