Spreadsheet functions to query route planner for travel time/distance

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Published on 2010-03-18T17:14:56Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 1:11 UTC
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I would like to achieve something whereby I have a spreadsheet such that the columns are:

Column A - place name
Column B - place name
Column C - distance by road between places in columns A and B
Column D - travel time by road between places in columns A and B

I thought it might be possible using Google Docs' spreadsheet and its 'Google' functions, but I've not found any that might do the trick.

In the end I could knock up an app to do it using the Google Maps API but would rather avoid it if I can.

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