Google Maps Geo Tools

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Published Saturday, December 10, 2005 by CCAer | E-mail this post

Place Finder - utilizes a place names database of 5.5 million records; zooms to a Google Map showing that location.
Location Finder - provides latitude and longitdue values for any place in the world that is selected in a Google Map interface.
Time Zone and Local Time Finder - click on a point on a Google Map and get the time zone for that location.
Height Finder - find the elevation for a specified point on a map; results use SRTM elevation data (doesn’t seem to work for Canadian locations).
Sunrise / Sunset Time Finder - click on a point on a Google Map and get the sunrise and sunset times for that location.
Distance Finder - calculates the straight line distance between two points using a Google Maps interface.