[Plugin: Google Maps via Store Locator Plus] Distances as the crow flies?

I have a request, I am very interested in this product however I worry about the way you calculate the distances. You say it is in a straight line as the crow flies.

What happens if there is a huge lake and the actual travel mileage would be 5x longer. It is for this reason and several others I would want to calculate the actual road distances. As the real google maps does.

Is there any way we can make this happen?

Also I would like to know how I could insert custom location groups (so you can have a different icon colour for different groups of locations).

And custom fields on each location.

Finally I do not know about the csv files. I have 1000 locations which need to be uploaded. I have a spreadsheet laid out as https://www.batchgeo.com advise with headings and seperate columns. Would this spread-sheet design be usable. Or is there a csv file template I could see?

Thank you.

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