RoadDistanceFinda Application

Calculate Distance by Road between Two Given Locations

RoadDistanceFinda is an innovative software application for calculating distance by road between any two or more postcodes in the UK. Developed by software engineers in Graticule, the RoadDistanceFinda application is an accurate, fast and reliable way of computing distances by road or streets throughout the UK. It is being used by business managers to provide quotes for home deliveries, freight transport, coach hire, etc. It can be used with medium-scale digital road map data or large-scale digital street map data depending on the level of accuracy required for finding distances by road.

• Features
  • Give the start and end postcodes and returns calculated distance by road;
  • Import an Excel spreadsheet or CSV file for batch processing between postcodes;
  • Calculate distances by shortest or quickest routes;
  • Copy results to clipboard for pasting to spreadsheets, databases, etc.;
  • Output distances in miles and kilometres;
  • Accurate, fast and repeatable calculations;


• Benefits
  • Batch process of jobs for efficient processing tasks every hour, day or week;
  • Estimate delivery costs for quotations based on trip distances;
  • Locate nearest resource based on distance by road;
  • Audit mileage claims by computing distances by road for mutliple calls;
  • Use as integral component of vehicle routing and scheduling systems.


• Data
  • Avaliable with Bartholomews 1/200,000 scale vector road data of Great Britain;
  • Option to use Navtek or TeleAtlas street-level data of UK and/or Europe;
  • Uses the Royal Mail postcode unit data updated twice per annum;


• Technical Information
  • Runs on a desktop machine with Windows 98,ME,NT 4.0,2000,XP and Vista.
  • Recommended 2.0Ghz Processor and 512MB RAM
  • Requires just 150MB of hard disk space.


• Pricing and Licencing
  • Licenced on an annual basis
  • 60 Days of free technical support
  • Please contact us for a Quote


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