[Klug-general] slightly off topic?

[nic dan]

"and shouldn't be too hard to pull something out of your ass.
 
K,"

strange place to keep a map?

Aitch


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

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