topic How I can calculate the distance between two addresses? in Statistical Procedures

How I can calculate the distance between two addresses?

Agha — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:04:13 GMT

I should calculate the distance between home addresses and closest eye clinic. The addresses are saved in excel. Street, city and state have separate columns. I know I should add double quotation to each part of the addresses and then find the distance. Can you please share the codes with me. I can not share the addresses with you but they are similar the list below. Thanks.

Street state City

aaa bbb ccc DD mnv

aa dddd eee DD dvu

ffff oo nnm DD lmn

Re: How I can calculate the distance between two addresses?

Reeza — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:28:18 GMT

You need an api to get driving distances. If you can use flying distances (straight line distance) then you can use proc geodist and geocode function.

Use PROC geocode to convert addresses to latitude and longitude and then the geodist() function to calculate the flying distance.

https://support.sas.com/en/knowledge-base/maps-geocoding/geocodes.html#:~:text=Use%20the%20PROC%20GEOCODE%20for,government%20sources%20or%20data%20vendors.

Paper on the topic

https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings17/0155-2017.pdf

Or try this method - note you need the latitude/longitude for this one or need to modify the URL portion.

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Find-driving-distance-google-maps-usinga-list-of-10-hospital/m-p/884611

Re: How I can calculate the distance between two addresses?

sbxkoenk — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:29:46 GMT

See here :

Driving Distances and Drive Times using SAS and Google Maps
Started ‎07-05-2018 | Modified ‎07-05-2018
https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/Driving-Distances-and-Drive-Times-using-SAS-and-Google-Maps/ta-p/475839
Driving Distances and Times Using SAS® and Google Maps
Mike Zdeb
University at Albany -- School of Public Health
https://www.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/en_ca/User%20Group%20Presentations/TASS/Zdeb-DrivingDistances.pdf
Paper BI02-2016
Macro method to use Google Maps™ and SAS® to find the shortest driving and straight line distances between 2 addresses in the United States
Laurie Bishop, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
https://www.mwsug.org/proceedings/2016/BI/MWSUG-2016-BI02.pdf

BR,
Koen

Re: How I can calculate the distance between two addresses?

sbxkoenk — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:34:04 GMT

By the way,
You can also do reverse geocoding in SAS.

Home > SAS Communities Library > Reverse Geocoding Using PROC GINSIDE
Reverse Geocoding Using PROC GINSIDE
Started 4 weeks ago | Modified 4 weeks ago
https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/Reverse-Geocoding-Using-PROC-GINSIDE/ta-p/895337

BR,
Koen

Re: How I can calculate the distance between two addresses?

sbxkoenk — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:37:09 GMT

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Re: Find driving distance (google maps) using a list of 10 hospital addresses and individual zipcode
SOLVED topic
https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Find-driving-distance-google-maps-usinga-list-of-10-hospital/m-p/884682#M349514

Koen

Re: How I can calculate the distance between two addresses?

ugawoxoto61 — Tue, 20 May 2025 08:06:23 GMT

@Agha wrote:
I should calculate the distance between home addresses and closest eye clinic. The addresses are saved in excel. Street, city and state have separate columns. I know I should add double quotation to each part of the addresses and then find the distance. Can you please share the codes with me. I can not share the addresses with you but they are similar the list below. Thanks.

Street state City
aaa bbb ccc DD mnv
aa dddd eee DD dvu
ffff oo nnm DD lmn

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Replace 'your_addresses.xlsx' with the path to your actual Excel file, and ensure the clinic's latitude and longitude are correctly entered.