There was a thread a week or so ago...Somebody had designed a tool that worked with google maps to help measure routes. I'm unable to find it through the search function. Help!
There was a thread a week or so ago...Somebody had designed a tool that worked with google maps to help measure routes. I'm unable to find it through the search function. Help!
Here you go:
Thanks-that's it!
Dumb question - if you're "measuring" around a curved street, do you just double click every several feet?
indeed a dumb question. just add say half a mile onto every 10 mile or so, if you're running in a city with lots of turns.
pls use your brain.
it will be fairly accurate.
Thanks a lot for posting this (must've missed the old post about it). This is the sweetest thing I've seen in a while...no more using the car or bike to figure out distances of my running routes (I'm poor and have no gps).
Is there a way to get the page to open up on the city you live in every time if you have it bookmarked?
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indeed a dumb question. just add say half a mile onto every 10 mile or so, if you're running in a city with lots of turns.
pls use your brain.
it will be fairly accurate.
Possibly. Doesn't it sort of defeat the purpose to get on a GPS site and then start approximating?
This thing is awesome!!!! All these years(year) i've been doing this one 6 mile loop and i've always said thats got to be longer than 6 miles turns out it was 6.3
sorry, you are absolutely right. I am the one not using my brain.
Buy x amount of tape measurers with x being total distance of run divided by length of the tape measurer (here you will clearly have to use trial and error method). Sello tape them all together, nail one end to the ground where you begin your run and attach the other end onto the back end of your trainers (left or right, it may work with either..try it out) and then run you route.
There may be some flaws with this plan, I have not yet worked it out. I will get back to you when/if I do.
Slim wrote:
Is there a way to get the page to open up on the city you live in every time if you have it bookmarked?
Not that I can figure out.
It would be nice if you could enter an address and go there.
It might be good to email the site owners.
That's got some clear potential. What if it's really hot or really cold and I have a steel tape that expands or contracts?
. wrote:
sorry, you are absolutely right. I am the one not using my brain.
Buy x amount of tape measurers with x being total distance of run divided by length of the tape measurer (here you will clearly have to use trial and error method). Sello tape them all together, nail one end to the ground where you begin your run and attach the other end onto the back end of your trainers (left or right, it may work with either..try it out) and then run you route.
There may be some flaws with this plan, I have not yet worked it out. I will get back to you when/if I do.
See, you are already curve balling me here, I didnt think of that at all.
seriously though..none of these things are going to be exact. I mean it depends where you cross the road (same place everyday?) do you have to dodge some traffic? I think to be within say a half a mile of ten miles is not bad. Much better than estimate by pace judgement..most people think they run longer than they actually do..
anyway.. a great tool, though I found out my "10 mile run" is about 9.2 miles..
here is a better one. www.jdmcox.com
. wrote:
See, you are already curve balling me here, I didnt think of that at all.
seriously though..none of these things are going to be exact. I mean it depends where you cross the road (same place everyday?) do you have to dodge some traffic? I think to be within say a half a mile of ten miles is not bad. Much better than estimate by pace judgement..most people think they run longer than they actually do..
anyway.. a great tool, though I found out my "10 mile run" is about 9.2 miles..
You're absolutely right, and it doesn't bother me to run 45 minutes, guestimate my pace based on fitness and years of practice, and get a close but inexact figure. If I've got an accurate measurement tool, all the better.
I think it works pretty well...I used it to measure out a new course for my run tonight, and my time seemed to match the pace and distance. About the accuracy, even if you're taking small things into account like crossing the road at different angles and what not, it shouldn't change your results by more than 1 or 2 percent of the total distance you ran, which is much better than guessing within a half mile based off of your pace.
Here's one for thought. My "7-mile" route is actually 11.8.
I have measured with a GPS watch this one run being ~12.5 and this says it is only 11.5. This is a great map function, but it doesn't account for trails and stuff that isn't necessarily on most maps. But I'll take what I can get, the GPS watch I have is pretty unrelieble, and I can't quite figure out why.
I humbly submit to all of you; don't measure any of your training routes. Don't get caught up in the numbers game. Guesstimate distance. If you want to know how fast you're running, go to some measured/marked race course and do a workout or get a check on pace.
Here's an idea, one that is fun: if you must measure a course, put marks down at random intervals of one mile in distance. That way you don't get caught up in how far the course is and you can either run a workout or just check pace.
NOrunner wrote:
here is a better one.
http://www.jdmcox.com
i agree.
the sat photos or much better than the google version. you can see your house.