HERE + Google Sheets: Pull Location Data, Routes, and Maps Into Your Sheet

The Problem with Getting HERE Location Data Into Your Sheet

You have a Google Sheet full of addresses, coordinates, delivery stops, or field sites, and you need HERE's location APIs to enrich it: geocoding, routing, traffic, weather, nearby places. The data you want is available. Connecting it to your sheet is the part that slows you down.

HERE's APIs are not complicated, but they are APIs. For most operations you need geocoded coordinates before you can do anything else, which means a geocoding call before the routing call before the matrix call. The daisy-chaining alone is enough to make a straightforward task into an engineering project.

Below are the four ways people typically get HERE data into a Google Sheet. Only the last one handles the work the way you actually need it done.

Method 1: Manual API Calls and CSV Wrangling

The default approach for teams without a developer is some combination of copy-pasting addresses into a geocoding website, downloading a results CSV, and pasting coordinates back into the sheet by hand. Or you ask a developer to write a script that calls HERE's API row by row, which works until the sheet grows, the script breaks, or the developer has something else to do.

When this works:

• You have ten addresses or fewer
• It is a one-off task, not a recurring workflow
• You have a developer with a free afternoon

When it breaks:

• Hundreds of rows of addresses, coordinates, or stops
• Recurring refreshes, the sheet updates weekly and the enrichment needs to follow
• Multi-step chains, geocoding first, then routing, then a matrix
• The developer you borrowed is no longer available

The real tax here is not the API, it is the manual orchestration. Every step is a separate operation and none of them communicate with each other. You end up running the same type of enrichment three times a month and rebuilding the process each time from notes.

Method 2: Use Zapier or Make to Trigger HERE API Calls From Row Changes

The next step is connecting HERE to your sheet through an automation platform. You build a Zap or a scenario that watches a sheet for new rows and fires an API call to HERE when one appears.

This works for event-driven moments:

• New customer address added → geocode immediately
• New delivery stop created → fetch drive time from warehouse
• New field site entered → pull current weather

This fails for batch or analytical work:

• Geocoding 400 existing rows already in the sheet
• Rebuilding a distance matrix when the depot list changes
• Running a route optimization across 15 stops that came in together
• Multi-step chains where step 2 depends on the output of step 1

Automation platforms trigger on individual row additions. They cannot run across an existing range, aggregate results into a matrix, or chain geocoding into routing into optimization in a single flow. You also pay per task, and a 500-row geocoding job costs money whether it produced clean results or not.

Method 3: The Previous Generation, Location Connector Add-Ons

Until recently, the best available option for repeatable HERE-to-sheet enrichment was a category of add-ons that handled specific connectors, geocoding add-ons, mapping add-ons, routing add-ons. You installed the add-on, configured your column mappings, pointed it at your range, and ran the job.

That was a real step up from manual API work. The output was consistent, the column mapping was saved, and non-developers could run it.

But each add-on only did one thing. Geocoding was one tool, routing was another, matrix routing was a third. You could not chain them in a single operation. And the moment you needed a step the add-on did not support, you were back to custom scripting anyway. Configuration also broke every time the sheet structure changed, and there was no natural place to write the analytical logic, "only geocode rows where column D is blank," "skip addresses already resolved," "flag rows where the HERE response returned an ambiguous match."

This is the category we think of as the previous generation. It got the data in, but the thinking was still on you.

The Easy Way: Using SheetXAI in Google Sheets

There is a different path. SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads the sheet, understands what you are working with, and through its built-in HERE integration it can geocode, route, look up traffic, find nearby places, compute isolines, and run matrix routing, all in plain language, without separate add-ons for each API.

Example 1: Your Data Is Already in the Sheet

You have a logistics planning sheet with 60 client sites. Column A has the site name, columns C and D have lat/lng. You need driving distances and travel times from the warehouse.

For every row in this sheet, use HERE Routing to compute the driving distance in kilometers and travel time in minutes from the warehouse at 40.7128,-74.0060 to the destination in columns C and D. Write distance to column E and travel time to column F.

SheetXAI reads the range, calls HERE for each origin-destination pair, and writes the results back. If you need a matrix instead of a list, tell it that.

Example 2: Your Data Needs Prep Before the HERE Call

Sometimes the sheet has addresses but not coordinates, or coordinates but missing rows, or a mix.

Geocode every address in column A using HERE and write lat/lng to columns B and C. Skip any rows where columns B and C already have values. Then for all rows, compute the drive time from the depot at 51.5074,-0.1278 and write it to column D.

SheetXAI handles the condition, the geocoding step, and the routing step in one prompt. You do not wire up two separate flows or write any conditional logic yourself.

Which Method Should You Use

For a one-off geocoding job with ten or fewer addresses, manual lookup is fine. For event-driven workflows where a single new row should always trigger a HERE call, Zapier or Make are a workable fit.

For anything batch, multi-step, or analytical, geocoding then routing then matrix, or pulling traffic for five zones and writing counts, or building a distance table across forty destinations, SheetXAI is the only option that chains the steps in a single prompt without requiring a developer or separate add-ons per API.

If you run a version of this workflow more than once a month, the time you save on the second run pays back the first.

Try It

Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open a sheet with any location data, then ask it to enrich it using HERE. The HERE integration is included in every plan. For specific workflows, see how to bulk-geocode addresses in Google Sheets, how to build a distance matrix, or browse the full integrations directory.