Robin Harbron

Google Maps has been a favourite site of mine for quite a while, especially for its “Get Directions” feature. Type in the “from” and the “to” locations, and it’ll work out a path, and give a distance and directions.

Frequently I was just as interested in the distance as the directions, and I found myself using it to measure the distance between some of the paths I take in real life. The only problem is that it always chooses what it thinks to be the optimal path, which was often at least a little different than what I thought. To find out a total distance over a different path, I’d have to break the path into pieces small enough that it’d agree with me on the path, and then I’d have to manually enter and add those distances up.

Not anymore! Now you can add extra steps to a path. I was able to easily add up the route I walked today, and even save a link so you folks can see it too, so here it is. 5.2 kms, which is almost exactly what I used to walk at lunch hour.

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