Yandex.Maps is one of the popular online services of the Yandex company, providing all the necessary information about places, roads, locations of various objects, etc. Its functionality includes not only displaying the most basic information, it allows you to plot a route and measure the distance from one point to another, independently setting the trajectory of movement. It is about measuring distance that we will discuss in our material today.

The Yandex.Maps service is available for use both on the website, as a full computer version, and through a mobile application, which has many of its own features and differences. Let's look at these two options one by one so that all users no longer have questions on this topic and everyone can cope with the task.

Method 1: Full version of the site

Next, you will see for which function you should use the full version of the site, since this tool is simply not available in the mobile application. Please read the entire guide below to learn more about the featured feature so you can take full advantage of it.

1. Open home page Yandex website by clicking on the link above. There go to the section "Cards".



2. Here you can immediately find the place you want to measure the distance to by entering data in the search bar.



3. If the distance is calculated on the basis of only two points, it is easier to simply plot a route by choosing one of the modes of transportation. Read more about this in our other material at the following link.



4. Now let's move directly to the tool we mentioned above. It's called "Ruler" and allows you to draw absolutely any route with any number of points. Activate it by clicking on the corresponding button.



5. Then left-click on one of the places to create the first point. It will be highlighted with a characteristic circle.



6. Create an unlimited number of points to the final destination, using different lines for turns and other details. If you have created one large line and need to change it by adding a point, simply click on the required part of the fragment and move it to the desired location.



7. As you can see in the screenshot, the length of the line is limited only by the map itself, and the end point always displays the distance in kilometers or meters.

Now you know how to measure distance in full version the service in question. Next, let's discuss performing similar actions in a mobile application.

Method 2: Mobile application

Unfortunately, the Yandex.Maps mobile application does not have the function "Ruler", which causes some difficulties when trying to calculate the distance. This can only be done as shown in the following instructions.

As you can see, the functionality mobile application Yandex.Maps is quite poor in terms of measuring distance, so it is best to do this using the full version of the site. Above you were introduced to the step-by-step execution of this operation, so there should not be any difficulties with it.

Search for a map of a city, village, region or country

Ruler. Yandex map.

Allows you to: change the scale; measure distances; switch display modes - diagram, satellite view, hybrid. The Yandex maps mechanism is used, it contains: districts, street names, house numbers and other objects of cities and large villages, allows you to perform search by address(square, avenue, street + house number, etc.), for example: “Lenin St. 3”, “Lineika Hotel”, etc.

If you don't find something, try the section Google satellite map: Line or a vector map from OpenStreetMap: Ruler.

Link to the object you selected on the map can be sent by e-mail, icq, sms or posted on the website. For example, to show a meeting place, delivery address, location of a store, cinema, train station, etc.: combine the object with the marker in the center of the map, copy the link on the left above the map and send it to the recipient - according to the marker in the center, he will determine the location you specified .

Line - online map with satellite view: streets, houses, areas and other objects.

To change the scale, use the mouse scroll wheel, the “+ -” slider on the left, or the “Zoom in” button in the upper left corner of the map; to view the satellite view or people's map- select the appropriate menu item in the upper right corner; to measure the distance, click the ruler at the bottom right and plot the points on the map.

Nizhny Novgorod region- Ruler: interactive map from Yandex. Vector diagram and satellite photo - with streets and houses, roads, address search and routing, measuring distances, the ability to get a link to a selected object on the map - to send to the recipient or post on the website.

Google Maps For many Internet users, they have become a universal tool for exploring the planet, plotting routes, and street browsing. But with all this, some users do not know about all the capabilities of this service. Today we will talk about a simple but useful function - measuring distance on Google Maps.

There is nothing complicated about this - first, open the Google Maps service on the Internet maps.google.com. Next, we change the scale so that both points, the distance between which we will measure, are visible on the map. Right-click on the first point and select “Measure distance” from the drop-down menu:

After this, the mark of the first point will appear on the map:

You can not stop here, but add other waypoints, and the total distance will be indicated next to the last point:

Measuring distance on Google maps is done in a straight line, but because... a map is a two-dimensional representation of the globe, then when measuring large distances the line will appear curved, and this will shortest distance between points: