I must have been asleep when the announcement was read out, or just not looking in the right places, but apparently Gmaps Pedometer has been around for a couple of years or thereabouts. I wish I’d found it earlier, because it does something I really wanted to do with the Google Maps plugin I’ve used in the past. It lets me plot a route that I’ve walked onto the map, which can be scaled and dragged around in the usual way. It helpfully gives a calculation of the distance walked (or ridden, or run, or hopped, or whatever) in miles or kilometres. Nifty.

This image (click the thumbnail for the full-size version, or go here for an interactive version, shows the walk I had on Tuesday lunchtime, which came to 1.7 miles, or 2.7km if you prefer. Well, actually, the site displays it to a slightly silly number of decimal places, but I’ll spare you those. The number 1 shown part way round is the one mile point measured from the starting point.

I’ll have a play with this and possibly update some old posts with proper walking routes marked. Fun!