[Ansteorra] Travel times or distances

[Jay Yeates]

If heading for a unknown location, I usually opt for my local copy of
MapPoint, a MSoft business product that integrates nicely with Office &
Outlook (my standards) that you often get for free at their product
rollouts/seminars and can usually find it deeply discounted ... simply add
the destination address and set a point and print out a map (of set of maps
showing ever increasing detail ... very useful when you've never been to a
place. 

For this application, you can set points at the geographic centers of each
group to get approximate distances ... but since groups are widely dispersed
and locations of events tend to vary, the approximations and routes can vary
widely .... really easier to do it case-case and set destination points for
the common primary sites (gulf war, pensic, etc).  Like most in-class local
& web products, you can do route maps in whatever level of detail you
require.

Another nice feature of this product, if you have a MS based mobile device
or laptop that accepts GPS, you can track where you are in relation to the
map if you get very lost ....

'wolf
	... for a new age, new navigation tools


-----Original Message-----
From: ansteorra-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org
[mailto:ansteorra-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Chris Zakes
Sent: 2007 - December 18 - Tuesday 07:24
To: Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Travel times or distances

At 06:50 AM 12/18/2007, you wrote:
>As one in no way interested in reinventing the wheel . . .
>
>Is anyone aware of a spreadsheet/chart indicating the mileage distances
>and/or driving times between groups?
>
>~ihon

I don't know of any *online* charts, but such things are pretty 
common in the corners of old-fashioned paper maps. Alternatively, if 
you ask Google Maps for directions, they include mileage and 
estimated driving time.

         -Tivar Moondragon

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