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Distance Measurements in Google Maps

Reto Meier [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, September 6, 2007
2 years ago611 views

Google Maps now shows you the distance of any line you draw on a 'My Map'.

blog.radioactiveyak.com/2007/0 ...

They didn't invent this, Yahoo! has done it for a while, and I know of a couple of mashups that do the same thing, but still. It's pretty handy!

pooin [PersonRank 8]

2 years ago #

Google planimeter measure areas too
www.acme.com/planimeter/

dpneal [PersonRank 10]

2 years ago #

"They didn't invent this, Yahoo! has done it for a while"
or maybe it's from google earth, and yahoo copied them. ;)

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