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<pre>"and shouldn't be too hard to pull something out of your ass.<br> <br>K,"<br><br>strange place to keep a map?<br><br>Aitch<br></pre><br><br>> From: karl@qdh.org.uk<br>> To: kent@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 22:39:18 +0100<br>> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] slightly off topic?<br>> <br>> On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 22:21 +0100, MacGyveR wrote:<br>> > On Friday 08 May 2009, Karl Lattimer wrote:<br>> > > On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 22:09 +0100, MacGyveR wrote:<br>> > > > On Friday 08 May 2009, J D Freeman wrote:<br>> > > > > - gpg control packet<br>> > > > ><br>> > > > > On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 10:03:28PM +0100, MacGyveR wrote:<br>> > > > > > All,<br>> > > > > ><br>> > > > > > I'm looking for an opensource/free application/website that can do<br>> > > > > > the following:<br>> > > > > ><br>> > > > > > Display a street map<br>> > > > > > allow me to either draw/drag a line along roads<br>> > > > > > calculate the length of the line in miles<br>> > > > > ><br>> > > > > > It's for my running, I don't want to carry a gps with me, but a<br>> > > > > > figure someone might know of anything that can do the above?<br>> > ><br>> > > I'd suggest getting into googlemaps api, it is awesome and very simple,<br>> > > knock up a javascript app to do what you want and publish it :)<br>> > ><br>> > > K,<br>> > <br>> > I've used the maps api before at home and work, but didn't relise there was a <br>> > calculate distance between to points type feature?<br>> <br>> I'm pretty sure you can use the route planning stuff to do that. <br>> <br>> Something like this<br>> http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/overlays.html<br>> <br>> and this<br>> http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html#RoutesAndSteps<br>> <br>> and shouldn't be too hard to pull something out of your ass.<br>> <br>> K,<br><br /><hr />Windows Live Messenger just got better. <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665230/direct/01/' target='_new'>Find out more!</a></body>
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