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Google Maps Distance Calculator

Last Updated 10th June 2008

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Description

You can use the Google Maps Distance Calculator to find out the distance between two or more points anywhere on the earth. In other words, the distance between A and B. Click once on the map to place the first marker and then click again to position the second marker. The distance between the points will then be displayed. You can also build up a series of locations to find a total distance.

An important feature of this tool is that is "as the crow flies", so traveling in real life will normally involve larger distances, but this may also help those who need to measure off-road distances.

How To Use

  1. Zoom and drag the map to find the location of marker 1
  2. Click to place marker 1.
  3. Zoom and drag the map to find the location of marker 2.
  4. Click to place marker 2.
  5. The distance will be displayed below the map in miles or kilometers. You can change between miles or km at any time.
  6. Add as many points as required and the distance will build up.
  7. You can also drag and drop markers after they have been put on the map

Note

All distances are estimations so Daft Logic does not accept any responsibility that may arise when the value reported is incorrect.

You can move the markers after they have been positioned so you can modify you route on the fly and see how the distance will be effected.

Options

How it Works

Clearly you, the user inputs two 'points' that are used to calculate the distance. Calculating the "As the Crow Flies" distance is a matter of using Great Circle formula. Then the main problem is converting the Google Map unit to miles and kilometers.

Benchmark Tests

Map between New York and Paris
Map showing the estimated distance between New York and Paris. All references that can be found suggest that this is an accurate measurement.
Seven Mile Straight in Antrim
Map showing the Seven Mile Straight in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. This shows a reading of 6.910 miles.
Map between Belfast and Dublin
Map showing the distance between Belfast and Dublin. As far as I can see this is an accurate estimate (if there is such a thing). This trip would be approximately 100 miles by road so the proverbial crow would have less distance to travel.
Mary Peters Track in Belfast
Map showing the Mary Peters Track in South Belfast. The reading shows 0.394km which is clearly a reasonable measurement for an athletics track.

Relevant Links

Google Maps API

Further Uses and Ideas

Version History

Version 1 (29/12/2005) - The Beginning

Version 2 (19/01/2006)

Version 3 (15/06/2007)

Version 3.1 (25/09/2007)

Version 3.2 (01/10/2007)

Version 4 (20/01/2008)

Version 4.1 (21/02/2008)

Version 4.2 (10/06/2008) - You Are Here

Previous Comments For This Page

I can use that to help me to travel around the world in 80 days.
By Andrew Loh on 05/09/2008 Brilliant
By Krynskl on 03/09/2008 Cheers! I calculated the lengh of my trip from Canada to UK and France to see the entire distance of my vacation! Cheers!
On 29/08/2008 Training for the marathon. Great for knowing exactly how far im actually runny. Thanks
By Michael on 27/08/2008 A great site!! thanx
By bhaskar jain on 27/08/2008 A great tool for working out flight plans when using the Microsoft Flight Simulator X program.
By Mike M from Wash. St. on 20/08/2008 I uses this tool all the time, for calculating distances between Amateur radio stations... I love it! Thanks
On 20/08/2008 This is really useful! I've just started running and this is a real help for working out my routes. Thanks!
By Chris on 20/08/2008 I am cruising on bike and this tools is helping me a great deal to plan the trip. I wonder if i can link this to my site or page.
By vix on 20/08/2008 Finally, once jogging distance calculator that did not give me an error and works!
By Yann on 19/08/2008 Awesome stuff. It would nice if you could add a direction (heading) to each leg of the measurement between the point as well the coordinates of each point. Aternatively, could there be some file produced so that you can upload this into a GPS unit?
By Max on 18/08/2008 Bodgan, to send a route to a friend via email sign up to the Advanced Google Maps Distance Calculator for free and once you create and save a route, you can send it as a link to an email address.
By Daft Logic on 16/08/2008 Hey That's nice but how do i send someone the link with this page and locations and everything i see on the map?
By Bodgan on 15/08/2008 Awesome. Planning a kayak across Lake Ontario trip and is just what I needed. I love the internet. Many thanks to whoever worked on this.
By Warwick on 13/08/2008 This is a great tool! I used it to track the distance that I run.
On 13/08/2008 great!
By jmc on 09/08/2008 very good
By priyal on 07/08/2008 Argh... nice tool, but I can not undo my first marker! And I'm guessing that removing the first marker would take all of 20 minutes to code and debug.
By Alex on 04/08/2008 Bill, try ...Radius Around Point.
By Daft Logic on 01/08/2008 Add feature to save the path or atleast distance and the name of the two locations
By May be on 01/08/2008 Is there any way do draw a circle of a specified radius around a given point?
By Bill, Fairfax, Virginia, 31 Ju on 31/07/2008 hey, could there be a way that when you put two markers down, the path automatically adjusts to follow the streets in between those points? i know not everyone wants that, it'd be optional. i'm just having trouble making it follow a path because the marker covers part of the map and i can't click underneath it.
By Kim on 29/07/2008 excellent work!!! how can i see the path to travel? and distance between each point ?
By vijay on 28/07/2008 After I relocate the place I want search for. Then how am I to print the detail.
By Han on 28/07/2008 Very nice job, just what Google Maps was missing. Can you build it as a firefox add-in?? Many thanks.
By Nick, London on 28/07/2008 Would like to e-mail my calculations to others.
By Sundance on 26/07/2008 This is awesome. However, it exponentially got slower as I added more and more points. But that may just be my computer. Now I can calculate how long my bike rides are! Thanks and great work!
By Kaisley on 24/07/2008 About option for overlay of Lat/Long
On 21/07/2008 Is there an option to add radii of say 500 miles and 250 miles. And if they could be color coded would be good. Pick a city and xxxx miles out radii. Excellent product though.
On 21/07/2008 You can now use the Advanced Google Maps Distance Calculator to save your route!
By Daft Logic on 19/07/2008 Tom, the distance between two points is the distance between them without roads.
By Daft Logic on 18/07/2008 Not accurate, the roads are not straight line, the program should compensate for extra miles involving zigzag roads.
By Tom on 18/07/2008 facinating tool.. but i want to calculate different city of world. How do i get that?
By niranjan on 13/07/2008 facinating tool.. but i want to calculate different city of world. How do i get that?
By niranjan on 13/07/2008 This is a great tool for aiding me in determining cycling routes around where I live. Thanks.
On 12/07/2008 I don't see how to save the route
By Sundance on 12/07/2008 Very good. As others have said, great for planning walk/rides. Is there some way of introducing a marker between two previously placed points? If there isn't, can there be? If you don't like the route you've chosen, it can be a very tedious process modifying it if you don't have any "spare" markers.
By Paul on 12/07/2008 It would be nice if you could place a from address and a to address and find the exact distance. This feature would be especially nice for calculating distances within a metropolital area.
By Jason on 09/07/2008 Fabulous. Especially for lazy travel writers who need to plot out walking tours.
On 09/07/2008 Why does this page only work sometimes. The maps are missing very often ie. No map on web page? It is a really good tool apart from this frustration.
By Benny on 09/07/2008 Went searching for another measurement tool for Google as the one they had was not available tonight. Thanks again.
By itoronto on 08/07/2008 Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is a wonderful tool. Precisely what I have been looking for! Great work!
By Jenny on 08/07/2008 oh god is give inspiring of my works... did you have any maps that it can be a guide to travelling? thanks be4, this Site is Very usefull.
By TheBhE on 03/07/2008 Amazing tool!!!
By Senthil Kumar Sekar on 03/07/2008 I like this! it's very very useful, but I think it would be more if the button "Display halfway" puts a marker in the middle of the whole road drawn, not only between the last two markers :)
By Zap on 02/07/2008 I love this sight. I am trying to reach my weight loss goal (losing 150 pounds total)and with this, I can track every step I take on my daily approx. 3 mile walks. Thank-you!!!!!!
On 02/07/2008 For me as sailor and mountainbiker, both activities do not really have roadsigns, this is a great tool. I use MWsnap to save the picture... Thanks.
By LeoV on 01/07/2008 Great App, it helps with planning route for jogging and knowing where to go when the need to increase the distance.
On 28/06/2008 It is a mystery to me why Google still don't have a distance measurement tool. This is simply the most useful Google Maps based application I have ever seen. For me, only one feature is missing---saving the route.
By the way, I visited this page on 27/06/2008 Very nice! Helps for my running to calculate distance traveled.
By Jonny on 26/06/2008 excellent site great for sorting pigeon line of flight and distances
On 21/06/2008 It always bugged me that this feature is missing from google maps - you created a perfect tool. Keep up the good work! I'd love to see support for more than one marker-route on the same map. So something like a 'New' button, where the current markers stay, and the distance is saved / printed on the map. Then a new route can be started with the next click.
On 20/06/2008 Amazing!!!sooo cool... im finish with my physics project..thanks for this site!!
By Abby Catiggay on 18/06/2008 Love this tool, we run cross country; when we get home we use the satellite image to plot our course and see what we ran...love it. Keep goings. Any chance of a save options?
By Nigel in Hampton Wick UK on 17/06/2008 Awesome tool. Are there any plans to add the ability to link to routes that you've plotted? It would be awesome if I could email planned routes to my kayaking and hiking buddies.
By Adam on 11/06/2008 Please add nautical miles as a method of measurement. Thanks!
By A. Cameron on 08/06/2008 great for figuring out how far i've run
On 07/06/2008 brilliant idea. thanks for the great tool. would be great if I could somehow save the map...!?
By Moritz on 06/06/2008 Great, exactly what I was looking for! Perfect for planning kayaking trips.
On 05/06/2008 This is great, I hope it keeps improving. Thank you!
By Elisa on 02/06/2008 Hey this works great! thanks for the handy tool!
By Dave from Canada on 02/06/2008 Great!! what about using coordinates? KIM Tanzania
On 02/06/2008 Sven, please get in contact via this page.
By Daft Logic on 29/05/2008 hello. sorry for my dumbness...but... can someone advise me on how to implement the distance calculator? any suggestion appreciated. thanx in advance...
By sven macolic on 29/05/2008 It is a neat tool. Can you add yard unit?
On 28/05/2008 keep on coding!
On 27/05/2008 This is really a neat tool. I'm interested in line of sight information for high frequency RF transmission. I've estimated the location of Mount Wilson. It would really be helpful if its location was marked and elevatios along a path could be determined.
By Richard on 23/05/2008 Suggest adding an option, so that calculator is able to automatically select shortest road, highway, direction, or path to use between two mark points within a country, thus providing driver more accurate distant & direction. Something similar to GSM Maps on mobile phones. Hope this helps.
By Agilent on 23/05/2008 Great for checking ham radio contacts distance
By Bob B on 22/05/2008 hi, i love this. great work. it would be cool if you could save your routes (like have a url that would give the distance calculator the coordinates?, but maybe that would be too big). also have a scroll bar zoom would be awesome. i suppose the problem has something to do with focus?
By Tim on 16/05/2008 Thanks. Great tool.
On 12/05/2008 Just perfect
By alistratos on 06/05/2008 Excellent, very easy to use, good for running distances and very easy to modify the route
By Nick on 06/05/2008 Can I have the coding for this project because i realy need it for my final project.
On 06/05/2008 Its fantastic!
By Cristian Mar on 04/05/2008 Awesome site!! It is quite easy to use, but sometimes the tags appear too quickly. This site was exactly what I was looking for this evening- I am planning my walk for tomorrow.
On 29/04/2008 I love this! SO much better than the version out last year (got so frustrated I gave up). Finally a way to plot distance in the city, regardless of one way streets! I walk, not drive, so mileage is totally different. Is there some way to email the plotted distance to others? (to show others the route, distance, etc.)
On 27/04/2008 CRTL Print Screen
By Daft Logic on 25/04/2008 How do you PRINT the map?
By E-mail: moneymaking-internet-e on 24/04/2008 Wonderful I was too happy to get this site as it helped me .
On 24/04/2008 The Satellite wont work
On 20/04/2008 I work for a baseball team in the U.S. We've been using it to calculate the distances that home runs travel. It's been a lot of fun to announce to the crowd after home runs.
On 18/04/2008 It has been very useful to travel in our country and mainly both function are with one key is very important i.e.map and satelite by Ashvin M Baria India Surat
By ashvin m baria on 18/04/2008 Steve, This sounds interesting. If you want to take it further then contact us and send some screen shots of the 2 different measurements. Thanks
By Daft Logic on 17/04/2008 Measuring the distance from 'An Nasiriyah' in Iraq to 'Harran' in Turkey gives 595 miles in Firefox and 1175 miles in Opera. Interesting.
By Steve on 17/04/2008 I think this is great! I love using this for caculating my running distances.
By Gina - Honolulu, HI on 17/04/2008 things r going beyond the limits no words to express hats off to google
By harikrish on 16/04/2008 Very useful, Great work
By Mahesh on 16/04/2008 men you guyz are great culd we get this with real time weather?
By JONNY GIL on 14/04/2008 Chris, which area are you referring to? When you say not accurate do you mean the distance measured is wrong of the content of the map is not accurate?
By Daft Logic on 13/04/2008 These maps have to be updated. The maps for my area are not accurate at all.
By Chris on 13/04/2008 Vanja, it reports on the international mile. If you want to find out nautical miles then 1 miles = 0.868976242 nautical miles.
By Daft Logic on 10/04/2008 What kind of mile are we talking about when I want to measure sea distance? I need nautical mile! Please add that option.
By Vanja on 10/04/2008 bRILLIANT, I USUALLY HAVE A GOOD HEAD FOR WORKING IT OUT MYSELF BUT HAVE JUST DONT IT AND CONFIRMED IT WAS 3.5 MILE.... PEACE OF MIND FOR MY TRAINING!
By BEN on 08/04/2008 Brilliant idea and really helpful, thank you!
By Katy London on 08/04/2008 Hi, Very cool tool! Thanks for making this
On 04/04/2008 this is fantastic for helping trail runners calculate distance! thanks for a fantastic tool!
By Fouzi, Sunnyvale CA. on 03/04/2008 Great job for those who took the time and effort to build this project. salute to all of ya...!!!
By FalconRider.Singapore on 31/03/2008 AMAZING WEBSITE! :-)
On 31/03/2008 It is a good tool to check on how long did you walked. I wish you could save the info to check up on a regular basis the difference in walked distances using dufferent trails everytime.
By Hawkeye on 31/03/2008 I have people from all over the world working on my project and it was interesting to see how far many have come...this is great!
On 30/03/2008 Simply multiply your result by 0.88 if you want the reading in Nautical Miles instead. Good job on this great programming combination. Thank you so much.
By Math-boy. on 27/03/2008 I'm really happy about this utility. I've recently started getting in shape, so to speak, so now I'm able to track how far I'm walking/jogging. Thanks, great job!
By Blair M. on 27/03/2008 Fantastic and easy to boot!!!! Merci beaucoup
By m5s3a6 on 23/03/2008 Thnx, great tool
By Ionut on 22/03/2008 Love this, you made my life so much easier today!! Thanks
On 19/03/2008 The map doesn't show up on my browser at home but I think I have the same settigns as the browser at work. Is there something specific that needs to be enabled to see the map?
By Roger Bacon on 18/03/2008 BRAVO!!!! It is excellent! I was able to calculate the distance from the train station in Uppsala to the BMC, where I will be taking a course and by walking a similar distance in my hometown (Zagreb) I know the exact time I need to get there without paying the expensive bus fee. Thank you! It is an amazing tool. I will be using it constantly.
By sofiablaze on 17/03/2008 Good idea to interface great circle distance calculation with Google maps. Real usage of this tool will be only if you can calculate road distance using Google database, instead of just GCC.
By Sam on 12/03/2008 Could you please also include a nautical miles option?? Thanks..
By YACHTMARINE - BRAZIL on 09/03/2008 Useful tool for calculating distance between multiple points, especially when you only have one known data point. By Dave Hughes on 03/07/2008
By David Hughes on 07/03/2008 I found thta This made things quick and easy! thank you!Can i find out the cost an average flight from place to place ?
By Lilly on 05/03/2008 This thing is awesome!, is there a full screen mode?
On 01/03/2008 is it possible to get a bearing in deg or mils from your start to your end point and along the other points plotted?
On 29/02/2008 Is there a way to print this out?
On 26/02/2008 Thank you. Sure beats maps and rulers! Have been looking for something like this for a long time
By slc on 25/02/2008 One more sugestion. How about a setting for natical miles?. 1 knt = 6000 feet where 1 statuate mile = 5280 feet. It should be an easy feature to add.
By Roger Bacon on 22/02/2008 is it possible to have the miles converted into a dollar value, I'm building a site for a car shipping company
By Iluxa on 21/02/2008 An outstanding tool for pilots wanting to calculate distance.
By Roger Bacon on 21/02/2008 Que tipo de projeção cartográfica é utilizado para este mapa?
On 19/02/2008 It's very good!!!! thanks
By eun jung on 13/02/2008 This is awesome!!! Thank you so much. It makes running, cycling training so much easier to calculate accurately.
On 10/02/2008 thank you .
By lee on 30/01/2008 Very nice. Thank you very much.
On 29/01/2008 Superb - no more guessing my distance & rate on runs - good work fellas
By Tom (Paris) on 27/01/2008 This is really good Thx very much for ur work.Its much appreciated
By P0ps0t on 27/01/2008 awesome, great help for the mongol rally!
On 27/01/2008 I use this tool to figure out cycling distances. It works great for paths and other areas where you can not use a road to estimate distance. Great tool!!
By Matt on 25/01/2008 Thanks guys! It has been really usefull...
By Mike on 21/01/2008 Great thing, BUT Can not understand... On map there is no BIG city in Ukraine - DNEPROPETROVSK where lives more than 1 million people.. HOW IT IS POSSIBLE???
By http://i.am.human.lv on 20/01/2008 HAlfway tool seems broken. Try to calculate distance between YYZ (toronto,on) and YUL (Montreal, QC) you get 500 km. Ask for half way, remove last pointer and put new pointer where halfway was: you got 318 km.
On 14/01/2008 how can get help of this tool programatically at my site remotely ? e.g. i send lat1, long1 and lat2, long2 to you and you return me diatance
By omni_Zealous on 13/01/2008 That's a great tool. It would be nice though to have the distance calulated considering driving directions.
On 10/01/2008 Just used this to figure out what power I needed for a wireless link. Great tool!
By Capacity Junting on 10/01/2008 Great tool. Thanks for your effort.
On 05/01/2008 Clever little tool, no more having to put a ruler on my pc monitor to try and work out cycling distances!!! Keep up the good work
By John on 29/12/2007 Absolutely fab program! Great for helping me calculate my running distances!
By Sion on 23/12/2007 Great job! Now I can calculate my running distance.
By Freek (BELGIUM) on 16/12/2007 Create a radius around a certain point (address), in Miles. That would ROCK! Steve
By Steve G on 13/12/2007 there's no major city in south korea -.-
On 11/12/2007 Would like to remove tween markers. Maybe a pop bubble option to "delete this marker only".
By Wanderer on 11/12/2007 Would LOVE to see an option to create a radius around a certain specific location for example, a 35 mile radius around Cincinnati, Ohio.
By State Trooper on 08/12/2007 great tool, thanks a lot!
By Patrick, Cologne, Germany on 04/12/2007 Thanks this is a great site for planning and estimating running/jogging sessions around my home town and countryside. Great!!
By Scott on 04/12/2007 This is a very great site! I figured out all the information for my trip. You all should be every proud of your selfs. thanksz.
By Paula Jackson on 15/11/2007 Thx
On 09/11/2007 perfect for helping me estimate frequent flyer miles :-) Much appreciated.
By Nick on 08/11/2007 hi, try "[city],[country]" or "[city],[state]" and see if this helps. It is searching for locations throughout the world so there will be times it wont bring up the place you are looking for. If all else fails, try panning and zooming manually to find the location.
By DaftLogic on 06/11/2007 its usefull if it shows you the place that ur looking for it didnt show a place called "Vallona" so i dont know what to do
By By: Dan From Michigan, go bull on 06/11/2007 Great idea, very usefull. Thank you.
By Oguz on 05/11/2007 why there is no directory for Malaysia
On 01/11/2007 can be used in a golf course if can tell yardage, not miles/km. gps support will help also.
On 16/10/2007 Very useful, thanks. Pleasantly surprised to see Northern Ireland used as example. www.leemunroe.com
By Lee on 15/10/2007 Tom, nautical miles can be measured on this distance calculator.
By Daft Logic on 09/10/2007 Nice! Ships and aircraft use nautical miles - not as silly as it sounds, a degree latitude = 60 nautical miles exactly - how about that unit too?
By Tom on 07/10/2007 Very cool program. I am a special education teacher serving 7th and 8th grade students with emotional disabilities. I am using your program to impress upon them common distances within our town using the metric system. GREAT resource! Thanks, =) Tom
By Tom Clark on 07/10/2007 Great! I just love it. I would love to know the distance (yes, as crow flies, not by car or walk) between 2 street adresses within a city. But I would like to have it for let's say for 500 different adresses and I do not need the graphical user interface. Could you provide such a tool? Many Thanks. Please feel free to email
By Marc - Paris, France on 03/10/2007 it really helped my coursework! i searched 4 ages 2 get a website like this!! thank youuuu!! :D
By Emma on 02/10/2007 I used this nice tool to measure the distance from my location to my favourite wifi access point. Thank you!
By Student on 24/09/2007 Very nice tool. Great for measuring my running tracks. Thanks!
By thomas on 24/09/2007 Awesome tool. I finally know how much I run! great job really! Thanks!
By Mauro on 22/09/2007 needs city updates. no Seoul South Korea for example? come on
By brian in brooklyn on 21/09/2007 magic a useful and interesting tool, thanx. Daniel wilkins
By Daniel wilkins on 18/09/2007 All this map prorams seem to differ in their measurement .Example Google Map will give a distance of 1.22 miles Google Earth gives a distance 1.32. Which is correct?
On 11/09/2007 Max, Have a look at Circumference around a point on a map.
By Daft Logic on 10/09/2007 does anyone know how or where I could find a circumference around a city with a distance as the crow flies? I am a firefighter currently in union negotiations and I need to figure out our residency requirement. I want a map with a certain mile circumference as the crow flies. If anyone can help please email me at ############. Thanks
By Max on 07/09/2007 Very usefull for projects or curiosity but not practical. It would be more usefull if it could calculate the distance between two points for a specified route. For example; if you wanted to compare the distance of two different paths to chose the shortest route. Roadways are never built as a straight line between two points so the actual distance between the same two points would greater.
By Denis Beaulieu on 25/08/2007 I like this a lot. I'm a runner and I use the tool to calculate differente distance around my place, so I don't get bored running always the same route. Thanks a lot.
By Pierre on 24/08/2007 Good stuff. My expenses are banded according to the distance of the job I am on to our office in a straight line, so this is invaluable. If this was integrated into google earth allowing easy measurement between two postcodes/points, it would be even better. Thanks Daft logic.
By The Salford Mule on 24/08/2007 Gr8 tool. Very handy and useful.
On 17/08/2007 Like Ethan, my immediate need is to find the straight line or as the crow flies direction between two addresses. I have been searching for such a tool.
By Cynthia on 09/08/2007 Great tool! It would be nice to be able to show concentric circles around a marker so that you can see how far certain places are from a given location.
By Ozzy on 08/08/2007 The only thing this program lacks is the ability to calculate elevation changes and so forth. As a cyclist, I would really like to know what the average grade is for a given route.
By Jason on 08/08/2007 I tested the distance in comparison to Microsoft Streets and Trips 2001 and found good continuity. I tried two points (40, -120) and (35, -115.5) and tried to get as precise as possible. Looks like S&T gives about 424.8 miles and your site gives 423.775. Also a site in Yukon Province Canada to Beaufort, NC (using road intersections for points). 3108.099 on your's... S&T doesn't even get any more precise than the nearest 10 miles, but it appears to be VERY right about there, something around 3109. So if that product has skill, you're doing awesome. I'd also like to employ the distance calculator and curve plotter in a game I am helping to develop (free and public). Let me know if that's not ok. Thanks, enjoy your work a lot, Shane Young
By Shane on 08/08/2007 I have been using this to measure walking distances (miles and fractions thereof) and the new version shows a number of routes as about 15% shorter than the old version did for the exact same route!! The ones that have changed seem to involve a diagonal rather than a grid pattern.
By Chris on 08/08/2007 I preferred this awesome site before you added the function where every click had a little balloon next to it. It was a simple way for me to measure out my runs and then take an image still of the site. Now when I take an image still I have all these balloons all over the place. No chance you could put the earlier versioin of the site on another page? Cheers though for a great site.
By BigDawg on 08/08/2007 A nice feature would be to be able to enter addresses, a la google maps, and have th distance calculator find the straight line distance.
By Ethan on 08/08/2007 S, to be honest I am not sure if it is. I cant find any benchmarks to test it against such as a known road of XX meters or a roundabout with a known radius. If anyone else can, then please let us know. *Update: The reading shown for the Mary Peters Track above seems to say the reading is accurate at these smaller distances.
By Daft Logic on 08/08/2007 Is this accurate for measuring small distance, less then one mile? I want to use it to measure walking distances, which go on paths of the road. I know it reports to 3 decimals, but is it really that accurate?
By S on 08/08/2007 is there a tool where i can input a specific address?
By aaron on 08/08/2007 add to last post - In other words, is it really accurate for very large distances?
By Peter on 08/08/2007 I understand the program uses straight line distance between the two points on the map. However, because such maps are always deformed to provide a flat picture of the curved earth, isn't the shortest distance actually a curved line? For instance airline routes always look curved on a flat map.
By Peter on 08/08/2007 This tool is great! I'm looking forward for a full-screen mode (Internet Explorer) or almost-full-screen (Mozilla etc.) Thomas
By Thomas on 08/08/2007 Thanks for putting this together. I'm using it to find the distance between potential sites to be linked by microwave radio.
By James K7ICU on 08/08/2007 This is a very cool tool for a runner who wants to know his running distance. It works really easily (although the instructions could be made clearer, and the fact emphasized - the VERY useful fact - that one can go point to-point to-point to-point... and all the way home again as I used it) and it seems to be very accurate at the level of 1 to 20 km. I used it for Montreal locations. Congratulations daftlogic. Where are you working from?
By 1969wasagoodyear on 08/08/2007 Is there anyway to go fullscreen on the map? or almost fullscreen? its very short in my screen resolution...
By tais on 08/08/2007 Fantastic calculator, many thanks
By Tom on 08/08/2007 Great for the two way radio hobby. Now I can find out how far away the stations I worked are. Daft logic? I think it's a great idea! :o)
By Bear on 08/08/2007 Would like to see an option to create a radius around a certain point. Such as a 50 km radius around Vancouver.
By Sherry on 08/08/2007 nice tool, I hope you keep on improving it!
By Thomas on 08/08/2007 Anyone having problems getting this to work in IE? I copied the exact code from the source and put it on my server but when you click the 2nd point, it gives Error: Unexpected call to method or property access on this line: if (point) { Originally my source script was for version 2 of the API but I changed it to 1 by replacing v=2 with v=1 in the script source line and it still gives the same error.
By Chris Butera on 08/08/2007 I need to find the exact distance between two specific street addresses (as the crow flies) in 2 different NJ towns. Is there a way I can enter the specific street addresses into a program to get that information instead of using the markers (which I could never identify the exact location to place them)? If this cannot be done using DaftLogic, do you know of another website/program that does that sort of calculation?
By Eva from NJ, USA on 08/08/2007 Cool, I like this! But...when I try to go from Alberta to Malaysia, the map line goes the long way around the globe instead of the shorter way (crossing the Pacific). Don't know how to get the line to go East to West.
By Rebecca on 08/08/2007 As an alternative to the "smart zoom" suggestion, might it be easier to incorporate the functionality in gmaps that allows you to use the scrollwheel to zoom?
By Again with the Zoom on 08/08/2007

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