Great visual tool
Business Geografic’s Route Planning GEO Service calculates, from the geographical coordinates of each point, the distances between one given point and every other point.
Logistics
Goods invariably pass through pick-up points (warehouses), transit points (logistics platforms) and delivery points (sales outlets, customer addresses). Distance matrices are most useful to help Supply Chain Managers optimize their logistic costs.
Returning visits
Supplier meetings, infrastructure maintenance, meter servicing, etc.: if your staff needs to visit or tour returning places, provide them with a distance matrix. You’ll enable them to assess distances between geographical points at a glance and to improve their time management.
Tourism information
Distance matrices are the most efficient way to present a range of distances between geographical points. Distance matrices are largely favored in travel guides and tourism websites: their readability is worth a thousand words for the general public.