And while Google Earth has a few features that Maps doesn’t currently offer, including tours, for the most part, there doesn’t really seem to be a need for the web and mobile versions of Earth these days. Touch and hold anywhere on the map that isn’t a place’s name or icon. You can calculate the length of a path, running route, fence, border, or the perimeter of any object that. Then draw a route by clicking on the starting point, followed by all the subsequent points you want to measure. First zoom in, or enter the address of your starting point.

Indeed, seeing this announcement was the first time I thought about Google Earth in years, I think. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Maps app. To measure the distance on the google maps distance calculator tool. But the addition of a feature for measuring area seems useful, especially for students.Īs is so often the case, more than anything, the launch of this new feature is a reminder of how much overlap there often is between Google products - and not just in the chat app category.

Now that’s obviously not an earth-shattering new feature, especially given that you have long been able to measure distance with a virtual ruler in Google Maps, too. These days, Google Maps pretty much offers all of the mapping features that casual users need, but Google continues to quietly develop Earth and today, the company announced it is adding an area measurement tool to the service on the web (today), Android (later this week) and iOS (“coming soon”). Only a few years ago, Google Earth was the only practical way to see all of Google’s satellite and 3D imagery.

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