GeoRuler – Distance and area measurement using GPS
georuler.com
georuler.com
I started up the site on my laptop, denied location access, and clicked around a bit. Nothing happened and I didn't receive any UI feedback.
Trying again, I started up the site, allowed location access, and clicked around a bit. Nothing happened and I didn't receive any UI feedback.
If measuring between arbitrary points on the globe is what this intends to allow, then that seems like a worthwhile utility. Needs a bit of work though I think.
You need to use this application on a mobile phone. It uses the phones GPS to meassure area. It's a good point about the lack of UI information on the laptop. We should probably add some information to the user to make clear that it has to be used on a mobile device.
Do you have more information about what exactly you would like to achieve?
The barometers available on devices would allow this to happen, but I don't know (don't think) that when you request location access via the browser it returns altitude information if the device supports it.
Moreover, measuring the volume would require tracing out a much more complicated path since volumes are bounded by surfaces rather than edges. Given that the technical problems were solved, do you think that a human actually could manage to trace out a volume in an other cases than simple rectangular blocks etc?