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Measure Your Run or Bike Ride with Gmaps Pedometer

July 28, 2007


Take Google Maps and add to that a tool that tells you \"How far is it from point A to B.\" This is what the Gmaps Pedometer Mashup does. If you walk, run, bike or swim this is an excellent web tool for you. It\'s a Google Maps Mashup that lets you set up waypoints and it calculates the distance in miles as well as the number of calories you burn after you input your weight. The calories thing is obviously dependant to your pace also, but its a good approximation. Once you\'ve created a route, you can save your route, use the elevation tool for hills and indicate where you want mile markers on your route.
Some Uses for this tool:
1. Rather then driving your car along the jogging route to estimate the distance, input your jog route into the Gmap Pedometer to see how far it is.2. Estimate how many calories you might be burning with your run, jog, walk or swim. Not...

Author: Brent Evans | tags: google  maps 


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