Hi John and the list, Am not sure if anyone uses similar, but there is a programme called ImageEditLite that allows you to do what the author of that article has also used on his images. It does not unfortunately calculate mileages etc -:) ImageEditLite is a simple jpeg image editor which allows you to add arrows, lines, boxes, circles and "text annotation" to images in the jpeg file format (*.jpg). Primarily used as an add-on for WhisperPI, but can be used as a *standalone product*. It 'only' works on jpeg files, but the really good thing about it is, it is FREE! I use it all the time to annotate on downloaded records that are not very clear, i.e. for highlighting someone on a census where there are 50 on the same page and when it is not easy to see who you are looking for on the document. Or someone on a passenger manifest, a newspaper announcement etc...It took me a short wee while to work out how to use it, but once one gets the hang of it, it is really an excellent little programme. You can download the programme from this link : http://www.whispersolutions.com/ImageEditLite.html I also take a lot of screenshots, but they only save as a .png extension. So one may have to convert .png to .jpeg or other formats to .jpeg (yet another programme required) to use this programme. Hope this assists FG listers. Regards Robyn R, NSW, Australia -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Olson-Kennedy via Sent: Tuesday, 5 April 2016 06:31 To: CARELL <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: FERMANAGH-GOLD Distances ancestors travelled. --> Map Tools for Radius and Distance 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