How far are you from the nearest body of salt water? (apartment, houses)

[Mac15]

7miles to atlantic ocean.

[Montguy]

About 500 miles from Elliot Bay (Seattle); about 500 miles from Salt Lake.

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by pch1013

(You can use the distance measurement tool in Google Maps - click "Maps Labs" to enable the tool.)

OK, I found the tiny tiny one-point type word Maps Labs and clicked it and clicked enable and saved it. Now what do I do? Nothing happens.

How can Google screw up so many things without ever, even by accident, get anything right.

Much much easier to use http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/

I am 20.8009 miles from salt water.

[pch1013]

Originally Posted by jtur88

OK, I found the tiny tiny one-point type word Maps Labs and clicked it and clicked enable and saved it. Now what do I do? Nothing happens.

After you do this, you should see a little "measurement" tool just to the left of the scale bar on the map you're looking at. It looks like a ruler held vertically. Click that tool then click two points on the map.

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by pch1013

After you do this, you should see a little "measurement" tool just to the left of the scale bar on the map you're looking at. It looks like a ruler held vertically. Click that tool then click two points on the map.

Wow. That was intuitive. How did I miss that?

[OyCrumbler]

A mile or two from the New York Bay

[Komodo666]

40 feet from the Med.

[jtur88]

Closest I've ever lived in the past was 135 meters, in Chile, with an unobstructed view, at an elevation of 65 meters..

In California, 400 meters, also unobstructed view.

[in_newengland]

About 100 yards. Massachusetts coast, nice beach, wide open Atlantic Ocean.

[Mr. Joshua]

About 2500 feet from the Neponset River, an inlet of Boston Harbor.