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Distance and Drive Time

Review requirements, setup, details, and additional resources for CloudService Distance and Drive Time utilities.

Note: CloudServices is required to leverage this functionality. Contact Support to get started.

This utility calculates the number of miles and driving minutes from the Household Address to the Household Congregation Address. There are two new fields in the Household Table: Driving Distance and Driving Time. These populate automatically, and you can use them to pull a list of Households within X miles of their campus or Y minutes of drive time.

Initial Setup and Requirements

You must have an existing Bing API Key.
Attention: Microsoft is retiring Bing Maps and will no longer accept new Bing Maps for Enterprise customers. For more information, see this topic.

ACS Technologies must install and enable this utility. Contact Support to request this. See Billing Details.

Congregations must have a Location with an Address for the routine to compare them with Household Addresses. It is beneficial to you to Geocode these manually at the outset. See the Map My Selection Tool.

Details

The routine automatically runs overnight and calculate values for 5,000 records.

Only Geocoded Addresses calculate, so it may take days to calculate values for all records in the database.

The following fields update in Households:

  • Driving_Distance
  • Driving_Time

These clear if you edit the Address_Line_1 value in the corresponding Address record.

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