Excel or Google Spreadsheets: Function to find distance between cities?

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Published on 2009-10-17T23:10:12Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 23:25 UTC
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I want a spreadsheet of the following form:

Point A         Point B           Mileage
Los Angeles     Miami             292100
Palo Alto       San Francisco     90

Where Mileage is automatically calculated. Are there any functions or APIs to do this?

I am looking for "distance driven", not "as the crow flies"

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