MileCharter
Calculate the distances between lots of locations in minutes instead of hours!
Find route costs for hundreds of customers!
If you are already using Microsoft® MapPoint®, you know how much trouble it is to calculate various distances and travel times to reach your customers in time. Use MileCharter to take the pain out of these calculations. Process hundreds of source and destination locations accurately in minutes with a few mouse clicks.
MileCharter is an add-in for Microsoft MapPoint that calculates mileage tables and charts and puts the results directly into a spreadsheet. MileCharter will also compute travel times and estimate costs. It supports all of Microsoft MapPoint's routing options, as well as all geographic editions of Microsoft MapPoint 2002-2010.
Benefits include:
- Ability to calculate route distances, travel times, and estimated costs all at the same time.
- Easily calculate atlas-style tables between all locations within one group.
- Calculate distances and costs for each of your depots to serve each of your customers.
- Calculate tables with different source and destination groups.
- Supports sophisticated and flexible route cost calculations using rate tables.
- Different per-mile rates can be applied to different distance ranges.
- Find the shortest routes, fastest routes, or straight line distances.
- Find the 'closest only' destinations.
- Efficiently match your closest sales offices to each of your customers.
- Triangular and square mileage charts to match your required style.
- Ability to output accurate location coordinates at the same time as the mileage table.
- Supports Excel 2007's extra large spreadsheets.
- Supports all of MapPoint's routing options.
MileCharter also has a simple, easy-to-use interface allowing easy selection of start and finish locations, as well as formatting and other options. To see how MileCharter works, see the Guided Tour on the official MileCharter website. If you are new to Microsoft MapPoint, then try the Walkthrough for Microsoft MapPoint Beginners page. This gives step-by-step instructions for starting Microsoft MapPoint, adding locations, and then running MileCharter.
Requirements: You must have Microsoft MapPoint (2002 or later) installed. Microsoft Excel is also required. MileCharter runs with Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.
MileCharter Professional
MileCharter v2 introduced two levels of licensing: Basic and Professional. Existing users of MileCharter v1.4 can upgrade to v2.10 Basic for free. The Professional license adds a number of features including the ability to find and sort only the closest destinations, and to the pause/restart processing. The MileCharter Versions page summarizes the differences between the two licenses and the old v1.4.
Free Trial
Click here for a free 14 day trial of MileCharter. The trial version must be registered if you wish to use it beyond the 14 day trial period. MileCharter licenses can be purchased from our Secure Web Form for US$60 each (Basic License), or US$100 each (Professional license). Other purchase options (including CD-ROM) are also available.
Please use our contact form for MileCharter support. The MileCharter documentation has also been published online at the new MileCharter.com website.
We also sell a second mileage computation tool called MPMileage. This computes point-to-point routes listed in a database. We have a page comparing MPMileage and MileCharter.
Do you need a tool to manage all those source and destination pushpins? Try the Pushpin Tool with MileCharter!
