acme mapper (based on google maps)

In the lower right you have the Control Panel. This lets you do all sorts of stuff. All the controls have 'tooltips', so one way to find out what something does is to move your mouse over that item - a short description will pop up. Or you can read about the controls here:


* A Print link to send the current page to your printer.

* An Email link to easily mail the current page to a friend.

* "Link to this page" - use this to make a URL for the map, which you can send to other folks or use in a web page.

* The exact coordinates of the center of the map, in your preferred format.

* A button to place a marker at the current coordinates.

* The distance and direction to a few nearby place-names.

* A Find box that accepts a wide variety of location specifiers:
o street address (USA only)
o city name (world wide)
o USA ZIP code
o latitude/longitude in any common format

* A button to bring up the Markers Panel, where you can see all your current markers and rename/delete/goto them.

* A button to bring up the Links Panel, containing a bunch of links to other map-related web sites. The links are automatically updated to go to the same location you are looking at in ACME Mapper.

* A button to bring up the Options Panel, where you can set all sorts of preferences to change the Mapper's interface.

Some other features:

* You can have a marker automatically created when you do a Find.
* There are optional keyboard shortcuts - arrow keys to pan, Page Up / Page Down / Home / End to pan longer distances, and +/- to zoom.
* You can set an option so that a single-click zooms in one step on the point where you clicked.
* There's an option to use the mouse wheel, if you have one, to zoom in and out.
* The map automatically remembers all your settings - your last location, zoom, and map type, your markers, and your options.