It's actually the same point, because the earth is not flat. The tool says it's several hundreds of kilometers between the points but in reality its 0. You can test this yourself by measuring the distance between two points on the southern border of the map the south pole. Then I go an investigate where that place is and what it looks like! I do it with places that are very far apart in the world and it's great :- Thank you for making this!īy Alain on 10th February Big problem with this tool: It doesn't take into account that the earth is a globe.
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I try to find the 3rd point of a triangle to have a specific location right in the centre when I have 2 known places for the other points of the triangle. By David WYorks on 18th March This is great! I really enjoy playing with it. The maps often show me places that I didn't know of to look at next time I'm out. On 27th March Really useful, easy to work desktop tool for measuring my daily walks -without a smart 'phone. It doesn't take long to key in waypoints to work out the actual distances you've walked or ran - guy below me is just lazy.īy dfsgds on 27th March Measuring distances as-the-crow-flies for walking routes in the city is thoroughly useless.
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If you are trying to measure the distance between two citiesthen the How far is it Between tool is probably more suitable for your needs. You can edit the position of any existing points by dragging the marker when they are displayed and dropping the marker in it's new position. Clear Map is a reset button that will clear all points and allow you to start measuring a distance again. Zoom to fit will zoom and pan the map to get the best fit of all your points on as large a zoom as possible. The Search For Location text box allows you to quickly get to an area you wish without spending time zooming and panning to find it. The Autopan option will move the map as you click the points. You can click more than two points in order to build up a continuous route. Validity and Reliability of the Kinovea Program in Obtaining Angular and Distance Dimensions Simply click once on one point, then click again on the second point. To modify color and label, right-click the Stopwatch and use menu Configuration See also: Measuring speed.The measure distance tool is a simple way of finding the distance between two or more points on a map. Move to the end of the event, right-click the Stopwatch and use the menu Stop Stopwatch. To measure the duration of an event: Move to the start of the event, right-click the Stopwatch and use the menu Start Stopwatch. To modify color and label, right-click the Stopwatch and use menu Configuration.Īs long as you do not start the counter, the Stopwatch displays zero. You can also identify the Stopwatch using the Label property. When you add several Stopwatches to measure simultaneous events, it is interesting to be able to identify easily which timed value is associated with each event.Ī first approach is to use color coding: associate each event with a color and use it as the Stopwatch color. To permanently delete the Stopwatch, right-click it and use menu Delete Stopwatch menu. The stopwatch will then be only visible between the frame you added it and this last frame. You can hide the Stopwatch after the measured event, use the Hide Stopwatch menu. Check the Preferences topic to read more about the various time representations formats. Note: The time representation depends on global configuration.
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You can resize the Stopwatch label by dragging the lower right corner away or by changing the font size in the configuration dialog. You can change background color and font size through the configuration dialog box. The Stopwatch will be visible from this image, forward. Click on the Stopwatch button of the drawings tool bar : Click anywhere on the image to add the Stopwatch.