Google Maps Adds Distance Measuring

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Google Maps added a nice feature to My Maps, letting you draw lines on the maps (which you already could do) and see how long those lines are. That opens up lots of possibilities, like bike routes, hiking trails, or drawing a line from Shea Stadium to your house and seeing if the route you take to a Mets game is shorted than just taking the streets or walking along the highway.
The answer, after drawing all three routes on the map? The complicated, winding route I take through Flushing Meadow Park is 3.09 miles long. Walking along the highway, a much more direct route, is 3.29 miles long. Walking with the streets is 3.2 miles long. Looks like when I decided on that route, at 15 years old, I was right about it being shorter and faster, plus its more scenic and […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg