<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 6 Oct 2009, at 14:49, John Smith wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>2009/10/6 John Robert Peterson <<a href="mailto:jrp.crs@gmail.com">jrp.crs@gmail.com</a>>:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On a very closly related matter, is there any way to adjust things so that a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">decent scale is displayed -- so often I find that I want to know the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">distance between 2 points that are 3/4 of the width of the screen appart --<br></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312"><br></font>As for distance between points there are some site, I can't think of<br>them off the top of my head, that let you click on a map and it will<br>give you the distance.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Interestingly enough, on the Multimap API I originally did a scale bar that used up basically all remaining space until someone pointed out that they're usually "thumb" width so that you can use your thumb multiple times to find a width.</div><div><br></div><div>John</div></body></html>