Distances and Maps: Great Find!

[Eltern]

So, recently I was trying to find a digital solution to measuring distances on the Khoras world map. Lacking any other alternative, I decided to resort to a piece of string. No longer!

ImageJ is a powerful, and free, image manipulation program, which you can find here: http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/

Using ImageJ, all you have to do is download one of the maps, open it, and then draw a squiggly line on it that represents the path you want to take. Hit Ctrl+M, and it measures the length of the line (I think in pixels, but I'm still playing with that). I used Strathon to Ithell as my base case to establish a conversion rate, and now I can easily and accurately measure and distance I want.

This sucker can do a ton more things, as well. Like measure areas of countries, if you wanted. Just outline the figure and go to Analyze->Measure. Voila! Now you can see if all the Land Area estimates we have on the nation pages are close 

Just thought I would let people know about this. My group is traveling great distances every other session, so it's certainly useful for me.

[Eltern]

Ah. Just figured it out. You can set the scale, so you read directly in miles.

[avisarr]

Wow! Fantastic! Great find. I will download that tonight and take a closer look at it.

Thanks for letting us know. I'll post again after I've had a chance to play with it.