{"id":68556,"date":"2025-06-03T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=68556"},"modified":"2025-06-01T16:32:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T06:32:23","slug":"google-maps-measure-crowfly-distance-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/google-maps-measure-crowfly-distance-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Measure Crowfly Distance Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ever since we saw the movie Tracks<\/a> and did a bit of research with Tracks Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson Tutorial<\/a> regarding Robyn’s incredible and unbelievable trek, and reading Tim Winton<\/a> books, we’ve gravitated towards those turquoise waters on the other side of Australia, to us here, on the east coast.<\/p>\n

Robyn Davidson ended that trek in an area of Western Australia, that even viewed on a map, is interesting looking, if you are into geography, let alone interesting looking seeing Google<\/a> and Google Maps<\/a> images we arrived at, after reading this interesting article from the Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> here this Sunday, 01 June 2025, about a trip “up the road” to the Ningaloo Reef area Tim Winton describes as …<\/p>\n

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Most such geographical research off most articles, these days, will end at Google Maps, and we’re not here to tell you today that anything else happened for us, and we did this on a MacBook Air via Google Chrome version of Google Maps webpages within today’s animated GIF<\/a> presentation. We were surprised via a right<\/strike> click (ie. webpage oncontextmenu<\/strike> onclick<\/i> event) menu …<\/p>\n

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… that we got presented with. Many options were new to us, and the “Measure distance” one …<\/p>\n

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… is very cute. Once selected the user can hop from place to place on the Google Map and receive useful crowfly distances for your “dream” trips?!<\/p>\n

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Previous relevant Tracks Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n

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We had the honour of watching a great movie last weekend called “Tracks” which was based on a Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson<\/a> (played by Mia Wasikowska<\/a>) from 8\/4\/1977 to 20\/10\/1977, and which you can see the route taken in an interactive map below by clicking this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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