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Not sure if this is what you are looking for but try

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click on "Get directions"

Enter 'from' and 'To' been the 2 locations you want

Not 'as the crow flies' but actual distance

Easy as google earth ruler .

Calculating the shortest distance between two points on the earth's surface is calculating the Great Circle Route.

In my early days in Air Traffic Control this was a traditional job to give the newbies (me) and we had to work it out on paper, no calculators.

It's easier these days provided you have the lat and long, which you can get from Google Earth.

Here's how:

http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html

Have fun.

Strap GPS to crow :)

Cheers
Greg

Hi Phil

I use the google maps distance calculator.

Distance calculator

David

Might help if you give a little more info, do you mean by using a map, or what?

Dividers on a chart - but use the scale on the side of the chart for your dividers width setting as Lat stays true but the scale on top and bottom 9LONGITUDE) gets closer the larger the longitude south of the equator...so is not accurate for distance measurements!

You'll get answers in nautical miles, (1 degree is 60 Nm and One Minute is 1Nm) but you can convert them to kilometers with a calculator, abacus or slide rule.

That said, crows tend to fly overland, you might wanna go as the albatross flys for over water distances!. ;o)

Cheers

Sorry i never put maps in but i used the distance calulator thank you all