The Scenario
The route-optimization tool your logistics team just licensed requires lat/lng for every stop. Your distribution company has 300 delivery addresses in an Excel workbook — column A, one per row, full street address. Your logistics coordinator has been pasting them into Google Maps one at a time and typing the coordinates into columns B and C.
She's been at it for 45 minutes and is on row 38.
The bad version:
- Continue the manual paste-and-record process for the remaining 262 rows
- Hit three ambiguous addresses that return multiple results in Google Maps and require manual disambiguation
- Finish at roughly 4 hours of total time spent moving data between two screens
The route tool import was supposed to make next week's deliveries more efficient. That efficiency hasn't materialized yet because the coordinate prep is still in progress.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. Through its built-in Neutrino integration, it geocodes every address in column A and writes latitude and longitude into the columns you specify — flagging any address it cannot resolve so nothing slips through.
Geocode each address in column A using Neutrino and put latitude in column B and longitude in column C. Flag any address that could not be geocoded with NOT FOUND in column D.
What You Get
- Column B: latitude for every resolvable address
- Column C: longitude
- Column D: NOT FOUND on any row Neutrino could not resolve — so you know exactly what needs manual attention before the import
- All 300 rows done in one operation
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Addresses are missing zip codes
For each address in column A, if the zip code appears to be missing, attempt to infer it from the city name. Then geocode using Neutrino and write the result to columns B and C. Flag rows where the address had to be inferred with INFERRED in column E.
Address is split across two columns
For each row, concatenate the street address from column A and the city/state from column B into a single string, geocode with Neutrino, and write latitude in column C and longitude in column D.
You want only geocoded rows in the final import file
Geocode all addresses in column A with Neutrino, write latitude in column B and longitude in column C, flag unresolved rows with NOT FOUND in column D, then move all NOT FOUND rows to a separate worksheet named NeedsReview and keep only resolved rows in the main sheet.
Full route prep in one shot
Normalize address formatting in column A, geocode each with Neutrino, write latitude in column B and longitude in column C, flag unresolved rows with NOT FOUND in column D, and produce a summary cell showing how many addresses resolved and how many need review.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open your delivery address workbook, then ask SheetXAI to geocode column A with Neutrino so your logistics coordinator can stop pasting addresses one at a time. See also the reverse geocoding spoke if you have GPS coordinate logs that need to go the other direction.