http://forgottenjourneys.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/fair-day-triangles-or-where-did-your.html Thank you so much John in NC, for the above link. A very revealing insight with interesting images. Carole in OZ.

My pleasure Carole. I've always been fascinated by maps. As you saw, the basic premise of the article is that given that people could walk 3-4 miles per hour, they could likely travel up to 12 miles to any location, conduct their business, and return home, tired, but in the same day. By horse, the time is cut, or the range could be extended. The article then goes on to show various 12 mile radi (plural of radius, and yes I had to look that up!) around various market towns. Since the recent discussion was around parish borders and how people would often go to a church that was closer to where they lived than to one that was within the parish boundaries where the lived, I have to wonder just how far people regularly traveled to church. Marchetti's Constant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchetti's_constant) says that people will commute on average about an hour per day for work (i.e. half-hour each way), but what about for church, which is usually once or twice per week? My own experience in a rural area where foot and horse were the only options was that people would travel 1-2 hours maximum each way or 3-8 miles. So back to the article. The illustrations look great, but how the heck did the author make them. Well, I did some digging and found that there are some tools online that give some of the same functionality, but not a one-stop shop for all the goodies: -) To draw a radius of X miles/kilometers around a given point on Google Maps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F85YgVXCk3Y (Video showing how to use the tool) https://obeattie.github.io/gmaps-radius/ -) Determine distance between two points, as the crow files: https://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-distance-calculator.htm -) Determine distance between two points, but using 'snapping' to the closest roads: http://www.mappedometer.com/ I did some further digging to see if anyone has added similar functionality to OpenStreetMap.org (which has many townlands demarcated) but came up empty. Imagine if all of these radius and distance tools were available, along with the townlands, the various political, historical, civil, and church boundaries (over time), roads/paths (again over time), and all of the churches, graveyards and other points of interest! John in NC On 2016/04/02 18:29 , CARELL via wrote: > http://forgottenjourneys.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/fair-day-triangles-or-where-did-your.html > > Thank you so much John in NC, for the above link. > A very revealing insight with interesting images. > Carole in OZ. > ========================= > https://www.facebook.com/groups/FermanaghGold/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >