Distance and Area Measure2.8 - App Store

Measure land, roads, parks, countries, lakes, etc from a satellite view. Calculates distances, areas, and perimeters.

Features that this application offers that most competitors do not:
- Add custom distance and area units.
- Draw interior polygons. For example, land area with bodies of water removed.
- Add a point to the middle of a path (Most only allow you to add to the end of the path) Tap to add to the end of a path. Long press to add to the middle of a path.
- Swap two points in a path or polygon.
- Add your current location from GPS receiver.

Features:
- 3 map layer options
- Export and import .kml files via Dropbox, iCloud, email, etc
- Pins are draggable and manually editable
- Name, notes, and color fields for each path and polygon
- Email or text message path and polygon data
- 4 verbosity modes. See only the information that you want to see
- Search by postal code, city, address, etc
- Get addresses near point on map

4 drawing modes:
- Path
- Polygon
- Polygon with hollow spaces inside
- No edit mode (to prevent accidental edits)

Values displayed for paths:
- Total distance
- Incremental distance for each waypoint

Values displayed for polygons:
- Area
- Perimeter
- Distance for each side

Add points to a path or polygon in 1 of 4 ways:
- Tap on the map
- Use current location
- Enter coordinates manually
- Import .kml file

Default distance units include:
- Meter
- Foot
- Yard
- Kilometer
- Mile
- Nautical mile

Default area units include:
- Square meter
- Square foot
- Square yard
- Square kilometer
- Square mile
- Square nautical mile
- Square acre
- Square hectare

Coordinate formats:
- Degrees
- Degrees, minutes
- Degrees, minutes, seconds
- UTM / UPS (Universal Transverse Mercator) / (Universal Polar Stereographic)
- MGRS (Military Grid Reference System)

Version History - Translation improvements for several languages.
- Minor bug fixes and layout changes.
- Improved support for newer devices and operating systems. 2.8 Aug 22 - Better support for newer devices and operating systems.
- Improved support for landscape and splitscreen.
- Minor bug fixes and UI adjustments. 2.7 12/02/2025 Compatibility fix for newer iOS versions.

Please send crash reports if crashes occur.
Please contact the developer via email if you have questions or notice any errors or issues. 2.6 08/01/2022 - Better support for dark theme and new devices.
- Minor interface and layout changes.
- Bug fixes for the recently added UTM and MGRS coordinate formats.

Please send crash reports if crashes occur.
Please contact the developer via email if you have questions or notice any errors or issues. 2.5 09/10/2020 - Several error corrections and interface adjustments
- Better multilingual support

Please send crash reports if crashes occur.

Please contact the developer via email if you have questions or notice any errors or issues. 2.4 05/31/2020 - Better support for iOS 13 and newer devices.
- With iOS 13, the in-app light or dark theme now defaults to the device preference. You can still set this in the app settings to ignore device preference.
- Improved colors for dark theme.
- Added UTM and MGRS coordinate formats (WGS-84)
- Added UTM and MGRS map gridlines and neatlines according to U.S. Department of Defense recommendations.

Please contact the developer via the in-app email form if you notice any issues. 2.3 02/05/2020 - Added support for landscape and iPad split screen.
- Added support for iPhone X.
- Many low-level UI changes.

Supporting all layouts required significant backend changes. Please report any issues by emailing the developer. 2.2 03/09/2018 December 2017:
- The search function on the list page works differently. Instead of hiding the items that do not match your search terms, now the bits matching your search terms are highlighted.
- 'Save' and 'Share' on the list page now show up to 4 options to better control which items to export.
- Added undo / redo functionality for important actions such as move, delete, bulk select, import kml. The undo / redo options, if any, appear near the bottom of the menu popup.
- Added preference setting ‘hide status bar’ that defaults to No.
- Added preference setting ‘confirm delete of single item’ that defaults to Yes. The undo / redo renders it somewhat redundant.
- Minor layout changes.
- Significant back-end changes that were necessary for the new features.
- A few changes for iOS 11.

Please see the support page for details.
Note that a Mac version is now available. (There is a link in the app that appears on the menu popup about 50% of the time)

Please report any problems or bugs to the developer via email. 2.1 12/12/2017 kml export fixes for color and Earth surface hugging... (paths do not go underground)
Also note that a Mac version is now available. 1.17 11/19/2017 September, 2017 update:
Removed the GPS requirement to make the app available for all iPads.
Added undo / redo.
More robust area calculation:
- Can now handle complex (self-intersecting) polygons.
- Can now handle polygons that contain a pole.
- Can now handle an infinite level of nested inner polygons. For example, you want to measure land area and remove lakes, but there are lakes with islands in them, and some islands have lakes on them. See the 'Utah example' on the help page.
Some layout changes for things that were just too small on a phone.
Better settings page.
More setting options:
- Hide status bar. Defaults to yes.
- Default name for new paths. Select none to use date and time.
- Default name for new polygons. Select none to use date and time.
- Allow map rotation. Defaults to no. Often when zooming the map, it will accidentally get rotated so that North is no longer up.
- Inner polygons must be within perimeter. Defaults to yes. Disable this to draw to polygons like the 'New Zealand' example.
Removed the 'add pins with finger swipe' function, since it didn't work very well.
Several bugs and memory leaks fixed.
Please visit the help page for more information.

Please report any problems or bugs to the developer via email. 1.16 10/08/2017 September, 2017 update:
Removed the GPS requirement to make the app available for all iPads.
Added undo / redo.
More robust area calculation:
- Can now handle complex (self-intersecting) polygons.
- Can now handle polygons that contain a pole.
- Can now handle an infinite level of nested inner polygons. For example, you want to measure land area and remove lakes, but there are lakes with islands in them, and some islands have lakes on them. See the 'Utah example' on the help page.
Some layout changes for things that were just too small on a phone.
Better settings page.
More setting options:
- Hide status bar. Defaults to yes.
- Default name for new paths. Select none to use date and time.
- Default name for new polygons. Select none to use date and time.
- Allow map rotation. Defaults to no. Often when zooming the map, it will accidentally get rotated so that North is no longer up.
- Inner polygons must be within perimeter. Defaults to yes. Disable this to draw to polygons like the 'New Zealand' example.
Removed the 'add pins with finger swipe' function, since it didn't work very well.
Several bugs and memory leaks fixed.
Please visit the help page for more information.

Please report any problems or bugs to the developer via email. 1.15 09/26/2017 Bug fix for kml file import/export. 1.14 03/11/2016 1.13 08/04/2015