I would like to know the exact distance in miles between two U.K.
addresses. Not just between the postcodes, but building to building.
The addresses are:- 1) The Granary, Ackerman Street, St. Neots,
Cambridgeshire, PE19 8HR.
2)St. Andrews Hospital, Billing Road, Northampton, NN1 5DG
If this is possible ! Cheers, Trent.

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Request for Question Clarification by adiloren-ga on 08 Feb 2005 15:13 PST

This is the closest I could find. Does this seem right?

42.14 miles 
http://www.mapquest.com/directions/europe.adp?go=1&do=nw&2si=gb&un=m&2gi=0&cl=EN&ct=EU&2n=NORTHAMPTON&2da=-1.000000&2rc=B3AAA&rsres=1&1y=GB&1a=%5B47-47%5D+ACKERMAN+STREET&1c=EATON+SOCON&1z=PE19+8&1ah=&2y=GB&2a=%5B200-234%5D+BILLING+ROAD&2c=NORTHAMPTON&2z=NN1+5&2ah=

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 09 Feb 2005 02:06 PST

Hi Trent,

I can provide you with the distance between the two streets. However,
I was not able to locate a facility that will calculate between the
exact buildings on their respective streets.

My calculation is much less than that in the clarification posted by adiloren.

Would this information interest you?

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Clarification of Question by trentduval-ga on 09 Feb 2005 11:12 PST

Hi Folks,
To Adiloren: The 42.14 miles is a long way off. The distance will be
very close to 25miles. Thanks for the mail though.
To Rainbow: The distance between the two streets would be useful if
you can measure the distance between Ackerman Street and the section
of Billing Road that passes by the St. Andrews Hospital entrance or
near to it.If you can do that, it will be acceptable. Thanks for your
efforts. ( and for the last piece of info that you forwarded)

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 09 Feb 2005 12:34 PST

The handy Map24 mapping tool for the UK shows a precise distance of
24.57 miles between these two addresses:



47 Ackerman Street
PE19 8 Huntingdonshire (St. Neots)  

  
234 Billing Road
NN1 5 Northampton (Northampton) 



Are these the correct street addresses for the two buildings you were asking about?


Let me know, please.


pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by trentduval-ga on 09 Feb 2005 13:50 PST

TO:-  ddhara
The distance you have given me is the shortest route by road. I am
looking for the straight line distance. Cheers, Trent.

To:- pafalafa
The property in Ackerman Street is called "The Granary", I dont have
an actual street number for this building because a number doesn't
appear in the postal address. Also the same applies to St Andrews
Hospital. I would be happy with the start point being the junction of
Ackerman St and Great North Road, ( plus 40mts, which the distance
from the junction to the building ) and the finish point, junction of
Billing Rd and Lower Thrift Street. Thanks, Trent

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 10 Feb 2005 07:26 PST

Hi Trent,

I calculated the latitude and longitude of the two addresses. However,
the closest points I am able to provide, using the available
databases, is their streets.

The points for each are:
Latitude 52.12.50N  Longitude 0.17.14W
Latitude 52.14.20N  Longitude 0.52.27W

Source: Streetmap
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/

I then calculated the distance between the two points of the
respective latitudes and longitudes.

Here is my result:
 
40.04719195770666 km.
24.884171412517556 miles
21.623753756861045 nautical

Source: USDA - Western Cotton Research Laboratory: Surface Distance
Between Two Points of Latitude and Longitude
http://www.wcrl.ars.usda.gov/cec/java/lat-long.htm


I hope that helps.

Best wishes,
Rainbow

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Clarification of Question by trentduval-ga on 10 Feb 2005 12:34 PST

Hi Rainbow,
This question seems to have provoked some healthy debate! To finalise
the saga, if you can give me the distance from Ackerman St to Wycliffe
Road (which joins the Billing Rd and is the nearest point I can find
to the East Gate entrance to St Andrews Hospital) and post it as an
answer, I would consider the question answered in full. Thanks to
everyone for their interesting comments, by the way, I'm very new to
this "Google Answers" so forgive me if I am not going about it the
right way.And remember: If you can keep your head when all others
around you are losing theirs, you might be the tallest person in the
room. Cheers, Trent.

Hi Trent,

Thank you for your clarification.

Using the same databases I used in my clarification, here are my results:

The points for each are:

Ackerman Street:
Latitude 52.12.50N  Longitude 0.17.14W

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=517124&y=258688&z=1&sv=Ackerman+Street&st=6&tl=Ackerman+Street,+Eaton+Socon,+St.+Neots,+Cambridgeshire,+PE19&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf

Wycliffe Road meeting at Billing Street
Latitude 52.14.22N  Longitude 0.52.11W

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=477275&y=260755&z=1&sv=477250,260750&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf

Source: Streetmap
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/


The distance between these 2 points:

39.74952913420642 km
24.699212308994482 miles
21.46302869017625 nautical

Source: USDA - Western Cotton Research Laboratory: Surface Distance
Between Two Points of Latitude and Longitude
http://www.wcrl.ars.usda.gov/cec/java/lat-long.htm


I hope that helps.

Best regards,
Rainbow

Great stuff! ! Rainbow produced the goods yet again.

I think it comes close to 31 miles.
http://mappoint.msn.com/(hjywrx55cpuybdylqrbsgjr1)/directions.aspx?&StartName=PE19+8HR&StartLocation=52.21383%2c-0.28730&EndName=NN1+5DG&EndLocation=52.23814%2c-0.87367&DataSetLangID=EUR&RouteType=Shortest&RouteUnit=Miles

-ddhara

OK... here I go again.
The latitude and longitude (co-ordinates are available in the link I
had provided earlier in my last comment)
1) The Granary
Lat 52.21383  --> 52 degrees 12 minutes 50 seconds North
Long -0.28730 --> 0 degrees 17 minutes 14 seconds West

2) St. Andrews Hospital
Lat 52.23814  --> 52 degrees 14 minutes 17seconds North
Long -0.87367 --> 0 degrees 52 minutes 25 seconds West

If you take these co-ordinates and go to this URL
http://www.wcrl.ars.usda.gov/cec/java/lat-long.htm

It gives the distance as 24.857034953801133 which is very close to
what pafalafa-ga had to say.

-ddhara.

ddhara-ga,

Thanks for the informative posts that you added here.  One question: 
Where -- exactly -- did you come up with the lat/longs for The Granary
and St. Andrews Hospital?   I do not see them at the MSN Maps link you
provided.

Thanks.

paf

paf,
   I deduced those for the URL itself. What I meant was, if you look
in the text of the URL itself, it goes as
http://mappoint.msn.com/(hjywrx55cpuybdylqrbsgjr1)/directions.aspx?&StartName=PE19+8HR&StartLocation=52.21383%2c-0.28730&EndName=NN1+5DG&EndLocation=52.23814%2c-0.87367&DataSetLangID=EUR&RouteType=Shortest&RouteUnit=Miles

StartName=PE19+8HR&StartLocation=52.21383%2c-0.28730 --> co-ordinates
of start point
EndName=NN1+5DG&EndLocation=52.23814%2c-0.87367 --> co-ordinates of end point
Sorry if I have caused confusion and inconvenience

A mere mortal,
-ddhara

I'm a bit confused; at first Trent said the point near the hospital he
wanted to use was the junction of Billing Rd and Lower Thrift St;
later he changed that to the junction of Billing Rd and Wycliffe Rd?

Anyway, the distance to the Lower Thrift St point is 25.025 miles. The
distance to the Wycliffe Rd point is 24.699 miles as Rainbow said.

Here's a little diagram showing four points around St. Andrew's
Hospital and the distance from each point to 52°12?50?N 0°17?14?W:

http://tinyurl.com/5bpdt

Here's a description of how to obtain precise lat/long co-ordinates of
a point by clicking on an MSN Maps map:

http://www.lcwireless.net/Documents/TechDocs/GettingGPS/GettingGPS.html

And here's some information about the location of St. Andrew's Hospital:

http://www.standrew.co.uk/en/1/abtloc.html

Out of curiosity, why do you want to know the straight-line distance
between these locations?