Google does it again
An Alert Reader has just brought an amazing new Google tool to my attention (Thanks Becky!) It is called GMaps-pedometer, and the link logically enough is www.gmap-pedometer.comThis little thing allows to to measure exactly how far you walk, run, bike, whatever during your workout. Go play with it. For example, it was capable of telling me that between my doorstep in Umea and my doorstep in Quebec City is exactly 5532.9952 km. For you engineers out there, that is 8 significant digits. In other words, it measured a distance of over 5000 km to the nearest tenth of a millimeter. Allegedly.
Well, skepticism aside it is still darn cool. Plus it shows you the direction you need to face if you talk to someone on the phone long distance and want to talk towards them. Am I the only one who does that?
My big question is whether that 5532.99 km is straight line through the center of the earth, or whether it takes the curvature of the planet into account. If it takes the curvature into account, those Google dudes are frickin amazing.
posted by Jeff @ 9:35 AM
1 Comments:
Fejj,
May a humble B Eng remind you that .0001 km is not 1/10 of a millimeter, but rather 10 cm. Still far fetched, but at least 1000 times more credible . . .
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