Route visualiseren op kaart

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Hallo,
Als beginner probeer ik inzicht te krijgen in de mogelijkheden van 'ArcGIS for Excel'. Ik kan geen aanwijzingen vinden in de help-hoofdstukken, daarom hoop ik advies te krijgen van dit forum.
Ik heb een sjabloon gemaakt met Excel-cellen voor geografische adressen (van; naar) en het lukt me om deze mooi als punten op de kaart weer te geven. Ik heb ook de "findroute" functie om in de cellen eronder te antwoorden met vrachtwagen tijd & afstand, gebruikmakend van wat wordt aangeduid als de "best route".
Tot slot wil ik die route visualiseren op de kaart, tussen de twee locatiepunten, maar ik kan niet vinden hoe ik dit vanuit de Excel-interface op de kaart kan zetten. Het zou een eenvoudige zaak moeten zijn, dus ik vermoed dat het een beginnersprobleem is...?
Met vriendelijke groet, Andreas<\/P>

ShannonCardoza · Answer

You're welcome 😊 I did chat with my team on this and we have an existing enhancement request for this workflow so we will see what we can do to make this feature available in an upcoming release of ArcGIS for Excel.

Stay tuned....

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AndreasT · Answer

Dear Shannon,

Thank you very much for your kind support. I think this made it clear 🙂
I have earlier created logics in Excel to support calculations of time and costs in transport groupage networks. Those are a bit easier to deal with, since they have defined "legs" in the networks. But for partloads or fulloads, its more of a matter of driving range (incl concerns on drivers rest-time etc). For this, I first made a simple setup with local distance tables (zipzone-zipzone), but in order to facilitate the model I started using the 'ArcGIS for Excel' formula to get distances. 
If the defined route (preferable with border crossing coordinates) would have been visualised, it would have been just perfect: Both to make it more visual, and in addition to support further calculations of e.g. costs from EU mobility package (trigging costs depending on driving time per country).

I am starting to get familiar with ArcGIS online, but it would have been so nice to keep my model within excel environment 🙂

Once again, thank you very much!

Best regards,
Andreas Thieme, Sweden

ShannonCardoza · Answer

Hi there @AndreasT,

Thank you for reaching out! That is quite the workflow for a 'beginner'. Nice job. 🤗  So the end goal here is to map the different routes you created?

If so, I do not believe this is possible in ArcGIS for Excel. We can map point features, so our start point and even end point but to do so I would suggest incorporating ArcGIS Online, once you have a feature layer, we should be able to add this ArcGIS layer in Excel. Here is the online documentation. But please feel free to elaborate on your current workflow and even share example data and I can see what we can come up with further.

All the best,

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