Calculating distances in Mendix with Google Distance Matrix API

Within Mendix it's very easy to calculate the distance between two addresses or cities. There is an App available which uses the Google Distance Matrix API. You can download it and import it within your project.

Open your Mendix-project. In the right upper corner you see the App Store, click on it and search for Google. Go to the second page and there you see an app called Google Distance Matrix API. Click on it and then you can download it and use it in you own project. In the documentation you can read more about how to use this app. The most simple way to use it is to use the microflows that are available in the folder Use_This.

One more thing, you need a API key before you can use the app above. You can get one on https://code.google.com/apis/console. You need to log in and activate the service called Distance Matrix API. You can find your API key under API access.