I am working on a trip to Europe and used the Sendero GPS
route recording features to help me figure out the shortest
route to visit 8 cities. I went to a GeoCoding web site and
typed in the name of the city and country and got the
lat/lon for that city. I set that lat/lon as my virtual
position. I then recorded a manual waypoint at that virtual
position. I repeated these steps for each city.
Then, I rearranged the waypoints, checking after I moved
each point to see what the total route distance was. I
wanted to minimize the amount of back tracking we do. This
is a rough estimate but it was a fantastic tool to help in
understanding the distances and direction between the
various cities.
The other useful aspect of creating a virtual route using a
city lat/lon, is so that I can quickly place myself in that
city without having to know an address. Once I load the
route, I can go to any of the waypoints and set it as my
virtual position. This works of course in countries where we
have maps but also in countries where we don't. Maybe
someone could take on the ambitious project of creating a
waypoint for every country. You could then set any country
as your virtual position and find out how far it was from
any other country.
The url for the geo coding site is
http://stevemor
se.org/jcal/latlon.php
It is very accessible.
Mike
Michael G. May
CEO Sendero Group
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