# Drawing a travel map for a blog

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawing-a-travel-map-for-a-blog/441556>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 16, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawing-a-travel-map-for-a-blog/441556 "2008-03-16T15:35:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawing-a-travel-map-for-a-blog/441556/1 "2008-03-16T15:35:31Z")

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I travel a lot and would like to start showing a map on my blog of where I’ve been this month. What I envision would be the ability to draw a line between Town 1 to Town 2 to Town 3 to Town 4. I want a straight line, not the road route.

Can anyone point me to such an online mapping function?

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**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawing-a-travel-map-for-a-blog/441556/2 "2008-03-16T18:10:41Z")

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[Like this?](http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1704541)

Gmaps Pedometer

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**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drawing-a-travel-map-for-a-blog/441556/3 "2008-03-16T20:15:14Z")

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Perfect, thanks. I couldn’t quite remember that use of Gmaps but I knew the wisdom of the Dope would be there for me. I’m going to lose some time on this - it will be fun to do not just month to month, but going back and tracking travel/visits across an entire year.

[Where I"ll Be, March 2008](http://dougswonderblog.blogspot.com/)