{"id":648,"date":"2006-09-11T07:10:04","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T12:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=648"},"modified":"2006-09-11T07:10:04","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T12:10:04","slug":"distance-and-calories-burned-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/09\/11\/distance-and-calories-burned-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"Distance and calories-burned calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is way, way cool: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmap-pedometer.com\/\">Gmap-Pedometer.com.<\/a> It uses Google Maps to calculate how far you&#8217;ve walked and how many calories you&#8217;ve burned.  The distance tool is reasonably accurate given that the only way to create points on your route is to double-click on a map or a satellite image so you&#8217;ll never get a true step-by-step distance. It&#8217;s not off by much, though: I checked a route I&#8217;ve hiked dozens of times and it was accurate within a tenth of a mile after four miles.<\/p>\n<p><P>The calorie counter is more iffy because it relies primarily on body weight. It doesn&#8217;t factor in speed, fitness level or elevation gain, so it&#8217;s a broad-side-of-the-barn estimate.<br \/>\n<P>On the whole, though, it seems like a handy link to have around.<br \/>\n<P>(Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/pregnanthiker.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/helpful-exercise-tool.html\">Bay Area Hiking Mama,<\/a> who had her baby in July.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is way, way cool: Gmap-Pedometer.com. It uses Google Maps to calculate how far you&#8217;ve walked and how many calories you&#8217;ve burned. The distance tool is reasonably accurate given that the only way to create points on your route is&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/09\/11\/distance-and-calories-burned-calculator\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}