Need a street address to street address distance calculator.

[fuzzybabybunny]

I've got a furniture sale business and our shipping is calculated by the mile from our warehouse.

Is there anything I can embed into our website that calculates the driving distance between our warehouse and the customer's house? I wish googlemaps would provide something like this, but it requires too much manual input from the user, plus there's no way to have our warehouse address pre-filled into the field.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Google Maps API should contain the details you need to do this.

 

[VinylxScratches]

Yeah, you could take the variable miles when doing it from address to address in the google api.

 

[Ka0t1x]

The only thing with the google maps API is returning multiple addresses. Sometimes with using the directions part if one of your addresses entered has multiple results (search suggestions?), it will do absolutely nothing. Granted, I need to update the code that I used with it as its probably out of date now, so it could be fixed.

But yeah the API should work well for what you want it to do.

If you're going to be using it with a form, I would definitely consider making helper functions to make working with the API a little easier.