I’m looking for a quick and dirty way to map out a path and get a series of lat/long points. What I’d really like is to pull up something like Google Maps, zoom into an area, draw a line or series of points, click a button, and get a pop up with a series of lat/longs.
I can do something similar with Google Earth - zoom into somewhere, and use placemarks to put pushpins in certain places, then output as a .klz file. But that’s a pain. I want something a little easier to use.
Anyone? There’s got to be something out there on the Interwebs that does something like that, right?
Not quite what you’re looking for, but better than using Google Earth:
Go to Google Maps and start double-clicking/zooming in to where you want to mark (as opposed to using the search bar). Once the place you want is centered, click “Link” in the top-right corner. The URL Google gives you will have the coordinates, like so:
And actually, it looks like even if you do use the search bar and then click around to somewhere else, the second set of coordinates will be what you want. I searched for 21st Amendment (it’s a brewpub), and then zoomed over to the ballpark:
For running and choosing running or cycling routes, I use Gmap Pedometer. You can record your route as a series of points on a map, or a satelite photo, and get the distance in miles or KMs. You can export is as a GPX file.
Thanks for all the suggestions, but still, none of those do exactly what I’m looking for. I can easily get the lat/long of a single point using many of those, but none of them allow me to draw a path and then export a series of points.
What exactly are you trying to do? I get trying to draw a line, but how many points along that line do you want to come out? Or do you want to be able to draw a few lines and then have the intersection points labeled?