Several of us at work have taken to walking for exercise and as seems to often happen, we start to compare notes on routes/times/etc. A few people went out and got pedometers, some of us haven't. I was curious if anyone had worked out a way to measure distances on Google Maps and was very pleased to find the GMaps-Pedometer site, a Google Maps hack that let's you lay out your route, will give you distances in miles/kilometers, shows an altitude graph, and if you include you weight, it will estimate your calories burned on your walk. On top of that, you can create a permalink that will store the route you entered so you can refer to it later or e-mail it to a friend. Definitely a fun and useful Google Maps hack.
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