I was stumbling around on the Internet looking for cool utilities to use with Google Maps and I came across Gmap Pedometer which allows you to plot out a route by double clicking on a Google Map. I obviously own a GPS but when I’m out walking the dog I don’t feel like carrying around my GPS in addition to the mobile phone and his poop bags.

Anyway, so I took the dog for a walk today and drew the route out on a satellite photo and it calculated the distance for me (2.2846 miles). Here is a sample route that I created that will give you an idea of how it looks when you’re done.

If you’re interested in loading this route onto your GPS (or to plot using something else) or even if you want to make a Google Map of a trip and load that into your GPS then you can use GMaptoGPX to covert the Google Map into XML for you to copy/paste into a GPX file.

Pretty cool stuff IMHO. A poor man’s GPS if you will :)

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