Visualizar rota no mapa

Question

Oi,
Como iniciante, estou tentando entender as capacidades do 'ArcGIS for Excel'. Não consigo encontrar pistas nos capítulos de ajuda, por isso espero conselhos deste fórum.
Criei um modelo com células do Excel para endereços geográficos (de; para) e consegui apresentá-los bem no mapa como pontos. Também uso a função "findroute" para responder nas células abaixo com tempo e distância de caminhão, usando o que é referido como "best route".
Finalmente, quero que essa rota seja visualizada no mapa, entre os dois pontos de localização, mas não consigo encontrar como colocar isso no mapa pela interface do Excel. Deve ser algo simples, então acho que é um problema de iniciante...?
Atenciosamente, 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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