[HN Gopher] Geoutil.com - Measure distances, areas, and convert ...
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       Geoutil.com - Measure distances, areas, and convert geo data in the
       browser
        
       Author : FreeGuessr
       Score  : 121 points
       Date   : 2025-10-21 06:20 UTC (6 days ago)
        
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       | FreeGuessr wrote:
       | I built GeoUtil.com to provide a free, browser-based toolkit for
       | geographic data analysis.
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       | It offers: - Interactive Map Tools: Measure distances and areas
       | directly on the map. - Data Format Converters: Convert between
       | TopoJSON and GeoJSON formats seamlessly. - Coordinate Utilities:
       | Perform conversions and other coordinate-based operations.
       | 
       | No sign-up required, and all tools run client-side for privacy
       | and speed.
       | 
       | Built with open standards and designed for developers, educators,
       | and anyone interested in geographic data.
       | 
       | Feedback and suggestions are welcome!
        
         | croisillon wrote:
         | you should have made it a Show HN, thanks for the discovery and
         | for paintmymap!
        
         | eitau_1 wrote:
         | a propos the distance tool, please let the user:
         | 
         | - type coordinate pairs by hand
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         | - copy coordinates entered by clicking
         | 
         | otherwise, it's a great tool!
        
         | elsjaako wrote:
         | Some coordinate conversions need a date (as the plates shift
         | over time). Are you planning to add that?
        
           | korkoros wrote:
           | I think adding something like (or awareness of datum
           | transformations generally) would make the tool harder to use
           | for its intended audience. If you need the level of precision
           | where tectonic plate movement matters, then you need
           | professional level tools.
        
         | bouk wrote:
         | Could you how a decimal point in the distance measuring tool? I
         | want to measure distances in my backyard from the satellite
         | photo and the rounded number makes it hard to be accurate
        
         | XnoiVeX wrote:
         | GPX file support would be a great addition! Thank you.
        
       | notachatbot123 wrote:
       | Is it AI coded (aka derivative of illegally slurped-up third-
       | party code)?
        
         | admaiora wrote:
         | Has a very strong AI code smell. Still it seems to be a decent
         | turf.js wrapper for GIS professionals who don't have too much
         | JS experience. Most should be able to use CLI tools at least
         | for all of this.
        
           | czbond wrote:
           | Thanks for mentioning turf. My Geo experience is generally in
           | Python and the visualization for end users is always
           | difficult.
        
           | stocksinsmocks wrote:
           | I would expect GIS professionals to use ESRI or QGIS. This is
           | an interesting showcase. It seems a little too simple given
           | the variety of options for geographic projection. I'm not
           | quite sure what the value proposition is, but it's
           | interesting.
        
       | sebosp wrote:
       | I made something like this around 10 years ago to show wireless
       | frequency coverage, luckily the country I was living in is small
       | enough and close to the equator, I didn't support the curvature
       | of the earth so I can't start to imagine how difficult it must
       | have been to visualize it in the browser
       | https://sourceforge.net/projects/waire/ in my case the earth was
       | kinda flat lol, it was fun parsing the map data available back
       | then and playing with SVGs, back then the rendering engine from
       | Opera browser was unmatched
        
       | bluber84 wrote:
       | What are your future plans? Will you open source the code? Will
       | deploy a library that everybody could implement it in their
       | apps...etc??
        
         | cwmma wrote:
         | If you read the about page it lists the open source tools it
         | used to make it, primarily turf.js so a library for others to
         | do it already exists.
        
       | kattagarian wrote:
       | This is really cool! I was doing some research last year on
       | OpenStreetMap and wishing that there was tools like distance
       | measurement there by default. Thanks for building and sharing
       | this!
        
         | Aachen wrote:
         | I've been using map.meurisse.org for probably >10 years now, if
         | distance measurement is all you need!
         | 
         | I also really like the scroll behavior there, no waiting for
         | the previous zoom level to animate before it lets you zoom to
         | e.g. city level
        
       | maelito wrote:
       | Also check https://terradraw.water-gis.com
        
       | jdc0589 wrote:
       | im consistently surprised there aren't more tools like this. I
       | also started playing with one earlier this year, and was pretty
       | shocked how easy it is to get going with Leaflet as the backbone
        
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