USA time distance and map search script

[Benny]

Hi All,

In an application I write, I need to have some mapping service, where I can
select two locations, which shall calculate the distance and mainly the
time(could be approximate) to travel from one place to another. Is there any
ASP scripts or DLLs(APIs) provided or sold by any third party mapping
service?

Have anyone come across such requirments? Your experience and suggestions
will help me much.

Many thanks and Regards,
Benny

[Adrienne]

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Hi All,

In an application I write, I need to have some mapping service, where I
can select two locations, which shall calculate the distance and mainly
the time(could be approximate) to travel from one place to another. Is
there any ASP scripts or DLLs(APIs) provided or sold by any third party
mapping service?

Have anyone come across such requirments? Your experience and
suggestions will help me much.

Many thanks and Regards,
Benny

Although it's not exactly what you need there is an article on Store
Locator at <http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2527>. I would think if you
knew the longitude and latitude for each place, you could figure the
distance and therefore travel time between the two points.

This brings back memories of "word problems" where you had to figure out
how fast train A was going in order to find out at what time train B was
going to cross it at some location. I _hated_ "word problems" when I was a
kid, and now I have to use them all the time. Good thing I paid attention.

--
Adrienne Boswell
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[Benny]

Thanks Adrienne.
I have done a restraunt search with zip code and longitude& latitude, But
not with mapping. (Click the locations in map and do the rest). Mapquest
provides that API, but do not know if that is customizable to my need.

I like your word problems example. You are right, many which we hate in
childhood will be used when we are grown up. :-)

Benny
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Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Benny" <ag*****@lycos.com>
writing in news:#m**************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl:

Hi All,

In an application I write, I need to have some mapping service, where I
can select two locations, which shall calculate the distance and mainly
the time(could be approximate) to travel from one place to another. Is
there any ASP scripts or DLLs(APIs) provided or sold by any third party
mapping service?

Have anyone come across such requirments? Your experience and
suggestions will help me much.

Many thanks and Regards,
Benny

Although it's not exactly what you need there is an article on Store
Locator at <http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2527>. I would think if you
knew the longitude and latitude for each place, you could figure the
distance and therefore travel time between the two points.

This brings back memories of "word problems" where you had to figure out
how fast train A was going in order to find out at what time train B was
going to cross it at some location. I _hated_ "word problems" when I was
a
kid, and now I have to use them all the time. Good thing I paid
attention.

--
Adrienne Boswell
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
Please respond to the group so others can share

[larrybud2002]

Benny wrote:

Hi All,

In an application I write, I need to have some mapping service, where I can
select two locations, which shall calculate the distance and mainly the
time(could be approximate) to travel from one place to another. Is there any
ASP scripts or DLLs(APIs) provided or sold by any third party mapping
service?

Have anyone come across such requirments? Your experience and suggestions
will help me much.

You can calculate a straight line distance using a zip code to
longtitude/latitude conversion. You probably will have to buy the
database.