Google Adds Distance Measurement to My Maps

Sep 6, 2007 at 10:52am ET by Greg Sterling

The Google Lat Long Blog reports that users drawing trail or hiking maps with its My Maps line tool will now get automatic distance measurements between points when they create personalized maps. This is a small but useful enhancement, one of many recent incremental improvements that Google has added to Google Maps.

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http://mapperz.blogspot.com/ Mapperz

The only issue is you cannot select Kilometers for this function. Most of Europe/Canada/Australia/New Zealand is in KM.
There seems to be a little bug when you delete a line and then create a new line with a different colour and transparency – the digitised line is invisible.
Iron out this two issues and this would be a great little feature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SI-metrication-world.png

Mapperz
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RustyS

FINALLY! They’ve made some great updates, but one of the most common pet peeves I’ve seen that many people had with the service was that you still had to turn around and guestimate the distance.