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'Calculate Google Maps distance between two addresses
Public Function GetDistance(start As String, dest As String)
Dim firstVal As String, secondVal As String, lastVal As String
firstVal = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json?origins="
secondVal = "&destinations="
lastVal = "&mode=car&language=pl&sensor=false&key=YOUR_KEY"
Set objHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
URL = firstVal & Replace(start, " ", "+") & secondVal & Replace(dest, " ", "+") & lastVal
objHTTP.Open "GET", URL, False
objHTTP.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"
objHTTP.send ("")
If InStr(objHTTP.responseText, """distance"" : {") = 0 Then GoTo ErrorHandl
Set regex = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp"): regex.Pattern = """value"".*?([0-9]+)": regex.Global = False
Set matches = regex.Execute(objHTTP.responseText)
tmpVal = Replace(matches(0).SubMatches(0), ".", Application.International(xlListSeparator))
GetDistance = CDbl(tmpVal)
Exit Function
ErrorHandl:
GetDistance = -1
End Function
Public Function GetDistanceCoord(ByVal lat1 As Double, ByVal lon1 As Double, ByVal lat2 As Double, ByVal lon2 As Double, ByVal unit As String) As Double
Dim theta As Double: theta = lon1 - lon2
Dim dist As Double: dist = Math.Sin(deg2rad(lat1)) * Math.Sin(deg2rad(lat2)) + Math.Cos(deg2rad(lat1)) * Math.Cos(deg2rad(lat2)) * Math.Cos(deg2rad(theta))
dist = WorksheetFunction.Acos(dist)
dist = rad2deg(dist)
dist = dist * 60 * 1.1515
If unit = "K" Then
dist = dist * 1.609344
ElseIf unit = "N" Then
dist = dist * 0.8684
End If
GetDistanceCoord= dist
End Function
Function deg2rad(ByVal deg As Double) As Double
deg2rad = (deg * WorksheetFunction.Pi / 180#)
End Function
Function rad2deg(ByVal rad As Double) As Double
rad2deg = rad / WorksheetFunction.Pi * 180#
End Function
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