https://allmaptools.com/guides/ Step-by-step guides from All Map Tools: coordinates, distance, elevation, time zones, counties, maps from your data and printable maps. en-US Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://allmaptools.com/icon-512.pnghttps://allmaptools.com/guides/ https://allmaptools.com/guides/get-coordinates-google-maps/ https://allmaptools.com/guides/get-coordinates-google-maps/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Google Maps and coordinates On a computer, right-click the map: the coordinates are the first line of the menu, and one click copies them. On a phone, touch and hold the spot: they show up in the search box on Android and in the place sheet on iPhone. https://allmaptools.com/guides/measure-distance-area-google-maps/ https://allmaptools.com/guides/measure-distance-area-google-maps/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Google Maps and coordinates Google Maps measures distance: right-click, “Measure distance”, and click your way along. For area, Google’s tool is Google Earth, which shows the acreage when you close the shape. Or measure it on All Map Tools in acres and square feet, and save it as a link. https://allmaptools.com/guides/utm-coordinates-google-maps/ https://allmaptools.com/guides/utm-coordinates-google-maps/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Google Maps and coordinates Google Maps doesn’t accept UTM: only degrees. To find a UTM coordinate, convert it to latitude and longitude first; to get the UTM of a spot in Google Maps, copy its coordinates and convert them. The only tricky parts are the zone and the datum. https://allmaptools.com/guides/state-plane-coordinates/ https://allmaptools.com/guides/state-plane-coordinates/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Google Maps and coordinates State Plane coordinates are a flat grid for each US state, in feet or meters, measured from an origin set for each zone. The Colorado State Capitol, for example, is at E 3,144,869 ft and N 1,694,557 ft in the Colorado Central zone. To use them in Google Maps, convert them to latitude and longitude first. https://allmaptools.com/guides/draw-radius-google-maps/ https://allmaptools.com/guides/draw-radius-google-maps/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Google Maps and coordinates Google Maps has no tool to draw a circle, and the My Maps help only covers lines and freehand shapes. The quickest way is to draw the radius on All Map Tools, which also gives you the area and what’s inside, and open it in Google Earth if you want to see it there. https://allmaptools.com/guides/straight-line-vs-driving-distance/ https://allmaptools.com/guides/straight-line-vs-driving-distance/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Distance and travel In Google Maps, “Measure distance” gives you the straight line, as the crow flies, and “Directions” gives you the road. To see both at once, with how much longer the drive is, use the straight line vs driving distance tool. Denver to Grand Junction is 203 miles as the crow flies and 254 miles by road: 25% more. https://allmaptools.com/guides/halfway-point-between-two-cities/ https://allmaptools.com/guides/halfway-point-between-two-cities/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Distance and travel There are three “halfway points” and they don’t match. Between New York City and Boston, the straight-line midpoint is near Haddam, Connecticut; halfway along the drive is Newington; and the place where you both drive about the same time is Berlin. To meet up, the last one is the one that counts. https://allmaptools.com/guides/drive-time-map/ https://allmaptools.com/guides/drive-time-map/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Distance and travel A drive time map, or isochrone, shades everywhere you can reach from a point in a given time. From the Colorado State Capitol, 30 minutes by car covers 793 square miles and reaches up to 24.9 miles away. A 24.9-mile circle would cover 1,948 square miles: more than twice as much, because roads don’t go everywhere. https://allmaptools.com/guides/find-elevation/ https://allmaptools.com/guides/find-elevation/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Places, elevation and time The most reliable way is to read it from a terrain model, like the USGS one, not from your phone’s GPS. Google Maps only shows it as contour lines in the Terrain layer; Google Earth gives the elevation of the spot under your cursor; All Map Tools gives you the number in feet with one tap. https://allmaptools.com/guides/what-county-am-i-in/ https://allmaptools.com/guides/what-county-am-i-in/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Places, elevation and time The fastest way is to open “What county am I in?” and allow your location: it tells you the county, the state and the ZIP code using Census boundaries. It works the same with an address or with coordinates from Google Maps. What doesn’t work is guessing from the city name or the ZIP code. https://allmaptools.com/guides/what-time-zone-am-i-in/ https://allmaptools.com/guides/what-time-zone-am-i-in/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Places, elevation and time Your phone usually knows, but near a time zone line, in Arizona or in a state split between two zones, it’s worth checking. Tap the spot in the time zone finder and you get the zone, the local time, the UTC offset and the next clock change. The US has nine standard time zones, and daylight saving time ends on November 1, 2026. https://allmaptools.com/guides/map-excel-data-by-state-or-county/ https://allmaptools.com/guides/map-excel-data-by-state-or-county/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Maps from your data All you need is two columns: the state or county (its name or FIPS code) and a number. Copy them from Excel, paste them into the county map maker and the map colors itself as you paste, with a legend, ready to download or share. No Microsoft 365 subscription, and no fixed way of writing the names. https://allmaptools.com/guides/map-addresses-from-spreadsheet/ https://allmaptools.com/guides/map-addresses-from-spreadsheet/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Maps from your data Each row needs an address, or a latitude and a longitude. With that, CSV to map puts every row on the map as a point, colored by any column you pick, without uploading the file anywhere. Google My Maps does it too, with a Google account and up to 2,000 rows. Excel’s own map chart can’t map addresses or coordinates at all. https://allmaptools.com/guides/open-kml-kmz-without-google-earth/ https://allmaptools.com/guides/open-kml-kmz-without-google-earth/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Maps from your data You don’t need to install anything. Google Earth on the web opens a KML in your browser, Google My Maps imports it into a map of your own (up to 5 MB), and our KML viewer shows it without uploading it anywhere. A KMZ is the same thing zipped: all three open it the same way. https://allmaptools.com/guides/print-blank-map-classroom/ https://allmaptools.com/guides/print-blank-map-classroom/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Maps for the classroom Pick the map, the version (blank, numbered, labeled or with capitals) and the paper size, then press “Print” or “Download PDF”. To keep it from getting cut off, print at 100% with no fit-to-page. Below are seven classroom activities and worksheets that come with an answer key.