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Hi all
I’m sure youve all used AA routeplanner etc. But found this useful little routeplanner website. Not so much that it gets you from A to B but the distance tool is excellent, even can measure the length of ya road.
Just select your “to and from” and let the planner do the rest. Then on the toolbar click the ruler and then click and drag for your distance radius. Takes a bit of driving but its worth a play.Steve
Re: Routeplanner/measuring tool
A good investment is Microsoft Autoroute as you can punch in multiple destinations to that and play with the order in which you arrive, calculating the most efficient route pretty easily. All that’s needed to do that is a postcode or a street address, a very useful tool.
Even more useful, if the budget stretches, is Mappoint, which also gives demographic information as well as postal sectors, districts etc. as well to boot. Not so cheap though. 😕
K.
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Latest version of autoroute I have and use it every day to work out my routes for the day/week which helps when booking in calls.let me know if you want to see it.. 😉
Map point I am working on getting a copy which should arrive early next week.If anyone wants to ” look at it ” hmmm.. 😉
bryan
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Take a look at this one. Best I’ve found, will save all your searches, reverse facility, and you can highlight maps for each step of the journey if you wish.
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/main.adp?country=GB
Alex
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boro wrote:Wish someone would send one to our office 😈
Call centres… not a clue about geography (or much else in many cases ;)).
K.
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kwatt wrote:
boro wrote:
Wish someone would send one to our office 😈Call centres… not a clue about geography (or much else in many cases ;)).
K.
How true 🙄
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Is there any software that’s as good as Autoroute 2005 but can handle multiple engineer’s runs and take into account timed calls?
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ANDY
you can save the different days and add the postcodes as and when you have them.
we have MON – FRI and then for instance mon 8th or tue 9th
all you need to do is put the engineers name in front or last and as the day ends clear the route off and save for the following week.
bryan
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What about if you had say a dozen or more engineers and a very large area? Is there software that can have say over 100 post codes for jobs booked in on a particular day and divide them efficiently amongst the engineers? I reckon specialist (very expensive) software would be needed to cope with that.
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