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Calculate distance (in Miles) between two zip codes

  • July 26, 2019
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I have two zip codes that I need to calculate, in miles, the total distance between and populate that in a field on my form. 
Our zip code will remain constant which I have a field for, "[address 1]
There is also a field on my form for an address of the ship to, [address 2] 

Right now I have a formula URL that looks like this: 

"https://www.google.com/maps/dir/"&URLEncode([Address1]) &"/"&URLEncode([Address 2])

This pulls up google maps and calculates distance. 

My question is can I get the 500 miles that google maps calculates to generate back onto my QB form. As of now it appears in google maps just fine, but then I have to manually type that number back into QB.
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You can download free excels dumps of every zip code
http://federalgovernmentzipcodes.us/

That will allow you to geocode your zips.

Then you can wake up sleeping Pythagoras from 2,500 year ago who will answer your question.

// In the USA, the typical distance between integer Longitude lines is about 53 miles. (these are the east / west coordinate)   
// They are further apart at the equator (69 miles) and approach zero at the North Pole.
// but we have few courses at the north pole or the equator, so lets just call it 53.   
// In the whole world, its 69 miles between integer Latitude lines.

// With credit to Pythagoras, we know that for a right angle triangle A^2 + B^2 = C^2.  I will use (A^2 for A squared) 
// We want to find the length of the C diagonal where A is the North South distance and B is the West East Distance
// Let LA1 be the LAtitude 1
// Let LO1 be the LOngitude 2
// Let LA2 be the LAtitude 1
// Let LA2 be the LOngitude 2


// So C^2= A^2 + B^2
// C = SQRT (A^2 + B^2)
// C = SQRT ((69*(LA1-LA2))^2 + (53*(LO1-LO2))^2)
// note that to take a square root you raise it to the power of 1/2 or 0.5

var number OriginLat    = [Patient Zip Code - Latitude];
var number OriginLong = [Patient Zip Code - Longitude];
var number DestLat      = [Consultant Zip Code - Latitude];
var number DestLong   = [Consultant Zip Code - Longitude];


var number Distance =
Round(
((69*($OriginLat - $DestLat))^2 + (53*($OriginLong - $DestLong))^2)^0.5
);

If($OriginLat =0 or $DestLat=0,0,$Distance)



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  • July 26, 2019
Mark- 

Thank you that worked great!