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Meet Halfway With a.placebetween.us
My friend lives in Atlanta; I live in South Florida. We'd like to meet at some half-way point for a weekend. But where to meet?
a.placebetween.us allows users to enter two addresses and the kind of place you'd like to meet (the site defaults to "coffee"). Thereafter, the site indicates the half-way point with a green marker and shows you nearby places that correspond with your meeting point. For example, this map shows where would would meet if we wanted ice cream.
While I think ice cream in Macclenny, Florida sounds nice, I think I'd rather meet nearer the ocean. Happily, a.placebetween.us allows users to drag the green marker to a new central-ish location -- nearer to St. Augustine, for example -- and it still gives suggestions. Very cool!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ross Oct 24th 2008 7:22PM
There is a new site called Meetways.com (http://www.meetways.com) that not only works in the US but the rest of the world. Check it out.
Amy Nov 7th 2008 10:25AM
I've tried all of these sites and run into the same problem with each of them - they give you the "as the crow flies" midpoint and not the actual midpoint of the route you'd take. Obviously if I am trying to meet up with someone I'm going to drive the quickest route possible (i.e., interstate) and not go over a mountain on backroads out of the way to get to the exact middle. I know you can often drag the midpoint, but I wish they would just calculate the driving directions between the two points first, then come up with the midpoint of that route!
Jerome Jul 26th 2009 8:55AM
MeetWays really does the trick, I can't believe there is such an easy tool that everyone eventually needs and don't realize. Thanks for the post and if you need to figure out the perfect median between two pints ever, or along your path I'd suggest try using Meetwyas.com
rtgman May 18th 2007 11:18AM
It's pretty good, but limited. There's one or two other sites that do the same but with more features and choices, although I like the drag on the map feature.
Check out www.happymedian.com and see what I'm talking about.