New Google Maps Feature

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This tool will help calculate the distance of sidings and give the dimensions of any structure in feet that can be transfer to a cardboard footprint by using a HO or N Scale ruler..

Also makes you realize just how much we modelers have to compress our tracks and structures! The combination of Google/Bing maps and their respective features has really become a plus for us!

Here is another site that I sometimes use: http://www.digital-topo-maps.com/. Gives you some pretty good topo maps of areas, although you have to do a lot of clicking on the maps to get to the area you're interesting in viewing. It has a Hybrid view that imposes an aerial view over the topo map. It does use the Google road map feature, so you can spot locations of railroads, but no way to enter an exact location - at least not that I've found. Might be handy at times.