Hello,
I'm currently working on a project in which I'm supposed to get co-ordinates according to addresses which I'm already given. The way it works is basically taking the street's name from the datasheet, for example: "Ukrainskiy, Moscow, Russia" and putting it into this site: Google Map - GPS coordinates, lat and long. Now, if you put the address which I mentioned above into Excel you'll get several parameters:
1. The street name in google's database. In this case: "Ukrainskiy b-r, Moskva, Russia"
2. The Latitude. In this case: 55.749057
3. The Longitude. In this case: 37.565371
I basically want to automate this process using VDA, if possible. Instead of doing this hundreds of times I'd rather have a script doing it for me. The process is basically: Get street name from Excel file -> Search the name on Google Map - GPS coordinates, lat and long -> Place the Latitude in a new Column -> Place the Longitude in a new Column.
Now, here's where it becomes tricky, well, at-least for me:
1. Google does not always find the street I type into it - which is okay! Although, this basically means that I want a VDA that checks if at-least 70 percent of the address in my excel file is present in the address which google gives me back. If it isn't then I simply leave the latitude and longitude in that row blank and move on.
2. While the address is static, I constantly have to search for new things on the GPS site, so basically I need something which sends data from Excel to the site and then takes back the new data from the site and puts it in Excel. I believe there's a way to somehow get the site to change if it helps - you need to throw it into google maps I believe - both coordinates will be part of the address in the new site in the following format: @55.749057,37.565371,
Basically, the latitude is located between the @ and the first coma and the longitude is located between the first and second comas. Again, I don't know if it helps but I hope it does, here's the whole link: " https://www.google.co.il/maps/place/Ukrainskiy+b-r,+Moskva,+רוסיה/@55.7490603,37.5675597,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x46b54bc8cc64ba3f:0x396790d84f12279b!8m2!3d55.7490573!4d37.565371
3. "
Basically, what I want to know is how possible it is to write a VDA which makes this happen and well, if it is then how do I do it.
Thanks in advance,
Random Ministry of Health official who works a 9 to 5 job
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I'm currently working on a project in which I'm supposed to get co-ordinates according to addresses which I'm already given. The way it works is basically taking the street's name from the datasheet, for example: "Ukrainskiy, Moscow, Russia" and putting it into this site: Google Map - GPS coordinates, lat and long. Now, if you put the address which I mentioned above into Excel you'll get several parameters:
1. The street name in google's database. In this case: "Ukrainskiy b-r, Moskva, Russia"
2. The Latitude. In this case: 55.749057
3. The Longitude. In this case: 37.565371
I basically want to automate this process using VDA, if possible. Instead of doing this hundreds of times I'd rather have a script doing it for me. The process is basically: Get street name from Excel file -> Search the name on Google Map - GPS coordinates, lat and long -> Place the Latitude in a new Column -> Place the Longitude in a new Column.
Now, here's where it becomes tricky, well, at-least for me:
1. Google does not always find the street I type into it - which is okay! Although, this basically means that I want a VDA that checks if at-least 70 percent of the address in my excel file is present in the address which google gives me back. If it isn't then I simply leave the latitude and longitude in that row blank and move on.
2. While the address is static, I constantly have to search for new things on the GPS site, so basically I need something which sends data from Excel to the site and then takes back the new data from the site and puts it in Excel. I believe there's a way to somehow get the site to change if it helps - you need to throw it into google maps I believe - both coordinates will be part of the address in the new site in the following format: @55.749057,37.565371,
Basically, the latitude is located between the @ and the first coma and the longitude is located between the first and second comas. Again, I don't know if it helps but I hope it does, here's the whole link: " https://www.google.co.il/maps/place/Ukrainskiy+b-r,+Moskva,+רוסיה/@55.7490603,37.5675597,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x46b54bc8cc64ba3f:0x396790d84f12279b!8m2!3d55.7490573!4d37.565371
3. "
Basically, what I want to know is how possible it is to write a VDA which makes this happen and well, if it is then how do I do it.
Thanks in advance,
Random Ministry of Health official who works a 9 to 5 job
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