{"id":369,"date":"2005-07-12T22:38:45","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T05:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/12\/google-maps-pedometer\/"},"modified":"2005-07-12T23:46:11","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T06:46:11","slug":"google-maps-pedometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/12\/google-maps-pedometer\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Pedometer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m too cheap (and don’t do enough cool outdoorsy stuff) to buy a GPS unit to track how far I’ve gone when biking and running and stuff like that. So I was excited when Brad pointed<\/a> to a tool called Gmap pedometer<\/A>, which combines a nifty interface with the GPS information contained in Google Maps to let people track how far certain routes are. <\/p>\n

For instance, I can now say that my typical jogging route<\/a> is closer to six miles than the five I thought it was. Which is good to hear, because it takes me around 45-50 minutes to run it, which I thought meant I was running 9-10 minute miles, but means I’m closer to 8 minute miles. (Since I broke a seven minute mile when I was 9 years old and about 4’2″, and could comfortably maintain a 7 minute mile pace for 12 miles when I was 12 years old and 4’10”, the thought that I was 50% slower despite having legs 50% longer was a bit distressing).<\/p>\n

Other nifty things I discovered while playing with the tool:<\/p>\n

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  1. My bike route<\/a> from the BART station at Millbrae to work is about 5 miles. Since I do it in 20-25 minutes, depending on how I hit the traffic lights, I’m making relatively decent time, considering it’s a mountain bike and all.\n
  2. My typical bike route<\/A> up to Skyline Boulevard is also about 5 miles. Except that it’s all uphill, so it takes more like 50 minutes.\n
  3. The one time I biked from work in San Mateo all the way back up to the Mission district in San Francisco turns out to be a little over 20 miles<\/a>. I think I did it in about an hour and 40 minutes, so a steady pace of 12 mph or so, which isn’t awful, considering it was mostly upwind and there were a few hills at the end to contend with.\n<\/ol>\n

    Anyway. Way fun tool. Hours of entertainment. At least for a geek like me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’m too cheap (and don’t do enough cool outdoorsy stuff) to buy a GPS unit to track how far I’ve gone when biking and running and stuff like that. So I was excited when Brad pointed to a tool called Gmap pedometer, which combines a nifty interface with the GPS information contained in Google Maps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}