Nice Route Measuring Tool

BamaDave · 07-24-2005, 12:50 PM

http://www.sueandpaul.com/gmapPedometer/

Check this site out. It's a tool for measuring running routes that taps into Google Maps. Once you get the hang of it, it is surprisingly accurate. I checked it against a 9.3 mile route that I ran this morning (which I have measured more than once in two different cars), and it calculated the distance to be 9.25 miles -- really close. I live in an area with curvy roads, and the tool measures by point-to-point as you instruct it... so it's a little hard to trace curves by straight lines (the trick is to make the lines between points really short on curvy stretches).

You can also use TinyURL to make convenient bookmarks for your routes... My route from this morning is here as an example: http://tinyurl.com/8sx2m

TDPurcell · 07-24-2005, 12:54 PM

Funny. Great minds think alike.

ODB · 07-24-2005, 12:56 PM

Thanks Dave. I had seen that before and couldn't find the url. It's also great for road biking plus I'm always looking for runs that I can do when I'm staying in hotels out of town. I also want to use it to plot out different routes from my house so I don't get bored with the run. Thanks again.

BamaDave · 07-24-2005, 03:57 PM

LOL - yeah, that freaked me out when I checked the forum and your post was there! I must have started typing my post about the time you hit the "Add Reply" button.

Actually, I had my start and end points slightly off when I measured my route from this morning. When I pinpointed it exactly on the Satellite map, the route measurement came out at exactly 9.3 miles.

NoMoYoYo · 07-25-2005, 02:58 PM

Can do at Google Earth, too. Probably same data. I like looking at the two hills I run that I call "The Longest Mile" and "Hamburger Hill" to see what the elevation change is [img]smile.gif[/img]

BamaDave · 07-27-2005, 03:09 PM

I noticed that on Google Earth as well. The good news for me, and anyone else still damned to dialup connections at home, the Pedometer website works fairly well on dialup. I haven't even bothered to try Google Earth at home. My favorite feature of Google Earth is being able to trace potential routes and see the elevation changes.

jruck37 · 07-27-2005, 05:22 PM

I can't figure out how to zoom in. The directions tell me to use the "slider" but I can't seem to find the slider.

Please help!!

TennesseeGentleman · 07-28-2005, 08:51 AM

Should be a + - slide in the upper left corner of the map.

jruck37 · 07-28-2005, 09:12 AM

It doesn't show up for some reason on my PC at work. I checked it out at home last night, though, and it was awesome. It's very accurate, too!