How Far Can I Travel

I'm desperate to use this and am considering obtaining my own free-trial Google API key. But which API service(s) do I need for this? It's currently September 2023 as I write this, and there are 23 possible Google APIs available for me to select. I assume all I need is the "Distance Matrix" to provide travel time & distance, or do I need other services within the same Key?

I would pay a lot of money for someone to develop a similar tool. The programming of this cannot be that difficult?? A field I know nothing about, but in all seriousness, it would seem to be a tool that parses information embedded in a map? Please correct me if I am wrong. If anyone is interested in developing this tool with my backing please leave your email here in the comments.

This is still far better than all of the "new" versions out there. I applaud anyone who could make something like this and provide it for free. Powerful tools that benefit everyone should be readily available, for free, to the world's population. There are so many competing things out there now, and everyone is trying to make a buck from it. Well, I am not able to pay for apps like this, I must use PCs at my library or school, who each have limited funding. The hording of information, and the ability to manipulate that information into usable data, shouldn't be allowed to be horded by corporations and the financially affluent. Oh well, like every other good thing in life, it is often too short, but it was definitely a blast while it lasted. I hope you can find a way to make this app, with full functionality as it was before it went down, available again, free to the masses. For how powerful this program was, not that I like ads, but I think the ad-space on your webpage would definitely generate value to pay for your costs. Oh well. Good luck.

Looking at your site for the first time and this looks like an awesome tool. If it's the cost of Google's service that made you take it offline, maybe consider an input field for the user's own Google Maps API key.

Still hoping for this to come back

I found this so useful for planning road trips in the past. You should develop this into an android app and get rich!

To reiterate what many have already said, this was a wonderful tool to have available. I miss it dearly. Thank you for having made it available, and I hope to see it again.

I keep coming back to this page that is Bookmarked. With hope that it will come back to life. I love this tool. It is the best way to plan road trips. :( Cheers

I was hoping this would've been ported to an open source mapping project by now. It was a great tool for planning vacations. I hope the previous poster realizes the reason behind it wasn't freemaptools, but the incredible increase Google put on services like this using their googlemap data. While some data is collected using tax dollars the aggregation, hosting on servers, and all the extras googlemaps brought were all done with Google employee and company assets which costs money. There were tons of articles and comments on the fairness, short notice, etc. and that debate can be had. But the short of it is it's their data and services and they get to charge for it. The businesses that use it continued with payment or switched to the open source alternatives. I just wish freemaptools would switch already! I need to plan some vacations! :)

Upon a Google search for similar things, I am finding that no one is willing to offer this for free. There are numerous on-line companies offering this feature, but they all charge a good premium for it. It's a shame. Profiting from information that was once free, well they won't be profiting from me. They should offer the service for free to end users and then make-up their costs by selling advertising space like everyone else. I get everyone has the right to earn a living. However, when powerful information, that should be freely available to the public, is only available to the public at a cost, then I have a problem that. Let's flip it around. No one should be able to map where I live then without me getting paid for my piece of land being displayed on the map. Where's my cut? No one asked permission to map my privately owned land? I think all landowners should file a class action lawsuit against any and all for-profit companies that use maps for anything. Furthermore, our tax dollars are all ready paying for this information, local, county, state and federal governments spend millions each year to generate and maintain maps. Ergo, the public should have free access to it since we all ready paid for it.

I would love to be able to use this tool, it still works in the app

Please, tell us how much this would cost to bring back! We'll pay! This was one of the best features on your site!

Hi, I loved this tool. Can we pay for it so you bring it back? Can you outsource the code?

I understand data services are expensive. I would be willing to pay for a report on a certain area/radius. Can I contcact you to do that?

PLease provide the source code at so someone else can provide the service!

NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Please come back! I used this every time I was looking for a place to live near my work so I could bike to work or school! Please figure something out!!!

So sorry to see this go! I'd gladly chip in a couple of bucks to keep this alive. A great tool for the, "let's take a 5 hour drive and see where we end up" weekend getaways!

love you, goodbye. one of the best tools on the web

I NEEEEEEED THIIISSSSS

Was great while it lasted, very useful. Hop eyou can find a way to sell it to G or someone.