Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Try-It Tuesday - Maps and GPS

If you like maps or cool computer apps, or if you have a child that does, give this a try!

The GPS Visualizer

Some of the things you can do there:
  • Convert any address (or group of addresses) to longitude/latitude (Come on, I'm sure you've wondered what yours is!)
  • Create maps
  • Create a Google Earth overlay for an address
  • Convert your data in a number of ways
  • find the distance between two pairs of coordinates
  • find the straight-line distance between two locations of any kind
  • Draw a direct route between airports
  • Draw range rings around a point
  • Look up elevations
There is a nice FAQ and some tutorials as well.

Oh, come on - at LEAST figure out your longitude and latitude! I did! I'd post it here, but then you'd know my address. lol

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