MapBench Tools
Browse geographic calculators, map utilities, coordinate converters, routing tools and file tools.
Location
See your current position on the map with live coordinates and the nearest address — processed by your browser.
Instantly find which county your current location (or any point on the map) belongs to.
Find the city, town or municipality for your current position or any point on the map.
Find the US state (or first-level region worldwide) for your current location or any map point.
Resolve your position — or any point — to its sovereign country, with ISO code.
Find the postal code for your current location. Best coverage in the US, with postcode support worldwide.
Turn any latitude and longitude into a full structured address: road, city, county, state, postcode, country.
Convert latitude/longitude into a human-readable street address, instantly and worldwide.
Geocode any address, place name or landmark into latitude and longitude — worldwide, no API key needed.
Search any place on Earth — cities, landmarks, parks, airports — and see it on the map with coordinates.
Find cafés, hospitals, fuel stations, ATMs and more within a radius of any point — live from OpenStreetMap.
Instantly find the IANA time zone, current local time and UTC offset for your position or any place on Earth — computed locally, no map needed.
Find the telephone area codes for your current US location — resolved from your state with a NANPA reference snapshot.
Find your US House district for any address or point, straight from the US Census Bureau's TIGER boundaries.
Resolve any US point to its unified, elementary or secondary school district using Census TIGER boundaries.
List the closest major international airports to any point on Earth, with distances and rough transfer times.
Find hospitals, clinics and doctors near any point — live from OpenStreetMap, sorted by distance.
Find the closest mapped beaches to any coastal (or not-so-coastal) point, with distance and direction.
Locate the closest mapped international border crossings to any point — useful for road trips and logistics.
Learn which traditional indigenous territories your location falls within, from the Native Land Digital Map.
The internet's favourite geography question, answered live from OpenStreetMap brand tags.
Distance & Bearing
Measure the great-circle distance between any two places, addresses or coordinates — in miles, km, nautical miles and more.
How far apart are two cities? Get straight-line distance, bearing and coordinates for any city pair worldwide.
Paste two lat/long pairs and get the precise distance in km, miles, meters, feet or nautical miles.
The classic “as the crow flies” straight-line distance between two points on Earth.
Distance between ports or coastal points in nautical miles, with bearing and speed-based passage time.
Compute great-circle distance and initial/final bearings between two points — the geometry pilots actually use.
How far apart are two points on the planet? Spherical distance with full unit table and map view.
Measure the distance between two US ZIP codes (or any postcodes) with one search each.
Find the compass bearing from one point to another, in degrees and as a compass point.
Convert between degrees and compass points, and find the direction between two places.
Find the exact geographic midpoint between two places — great for meet-ups, layovers and splitting trips.
Compute straight-line distances between up to eight places at once, as a full matrix with CSV export.
Estimate gate-to-gate flight time and air distance between ~90 major world airports.
Convert nautical miles to km, statute miles, metres, feet and cable lengths — exact by definition.
How long is that walk? Distance + your pace = time, steps and rough energy burn.
Routing & Travel Time
Real road distance and travel time between two places, from live OpenStreetMap routing.
Plan a walking route with distance and time on the pedestrian network, including paths and footways.
Bike-friendly routing that prefers cycleways and quieter roads, with distance and time.
Route through up to 12 stops with per-leg distances and totals — driving, walking or cycling.
Find the shortest order to visit a list of stops — automatic travelling-salesman ordering.
Plan a delivery or service route with multiple stops, optimised order and GPX export.
Compare driving, walking and cycling distances for the same two places, side by side.
How long does it take to get there? Estimated duration for driving, walking or cycling.
See everywhere you can reach within 5–30 minutes by car, foot or bike — real isochrone polygons.
Draw the area your business can serve within a target response time — and export it for proposals.
Draw multiple drive-time zones at once — see 15, 30 and 45-minute reachable areas as layered polygons.
Turn a trip into a fuel bill: road or straight-line distance × your car's consumption × local fuel price.
Paste your stops; get the shortest visiting order on the real road network, with totals and GPX-ready output.
Radius & Area
Draw a radius circle around any point on the map. Drag it, resize it, change units, share the link.
Add several radius circles to one map — different centres, sizes and colours. Export as GeoJSON.
Generate concentric distance rings (5/10/15… miles or km) around a point, labelled and exportable.
Draw a polygon on the map and get its area in m², hectares, acres, km² or square miles.
Measure any polygon's area and perimeter from map drawing or pasted coordinates.
Enter a radius, get the circle's area and circumference — with the circle drawn to scale on a map.
Acres ↔ hectares ↔ km² ↔ mi² ↔ m² ↔ ft² — exact conversions with copy buttons.
Draw any boundary on the map and get its perimeter in km and miles — fence lines, tracks, plots.
Coordinates
Click anywhere on the map to get precise coordinates — decimal, DMS, UTM and Plus Code at once.
Paste GPS coordinates from any device and see them on the map with full format conversion.
One input, every output: decimal, DMS, UTM, MGRS and Plus Codes — converted both ways.
Convert degrees, minutes and seconds (40°26'46"N) to decimal degrees (40.44611) instantly.
Convert decimal degrees to classic degrees/minutes/seconds notation with hemisphere letters.
Convert between latitude/longitude and UTM (zone, easting, northing) in both directions.
Convert Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) coordinates to/from latitude and longitude.
Convert Open Location Codes (Plus Codes) to coordinates and back — the short-code system for everywhere.
Initial bearing, final bearing and back-bearing between two coordinate pairs.
Fast distance between two pasted coordinate pairs, with a full unit table.
The spherical midpoint between two coordinate pairs, with copyable result.
Convert what3words addresses to coordinates using your own API key — with the free Plus Code alternative built in.
Convert MGRS and UTM grid references to latitude/longitude and back, at any precision.
Check an address against OpenStreetMap and get it back in clean, standardized components.
Coordinates in, postcode out — for the US and every country OpenStreetMap covers.
Map Files
Drop a .geojson file to validate it, view it on a map, inspect properties and export KML or GPX.
Open KML files (Google Earth / My Maps exports) in the browser — with GeoJSON and GPX export.
Visualise GPX tracks and waypoints with distance, elevation gain/loss and duration stats.
Turn a spreadsheet of lat/lng rows into an interactive map — clustering, colouring and export included.
Map Creation
Earth Science
Get the ground elevation of any point on Earth from the Copernicus 90 m digital elevation model.
Draw a line between two points and get the full elevation cross-section with gain and loss.
Can you see from point A to point B? Terrain + Earth-curvature visibility check with an elevation profile.
How far can you see to the horizon from a given height — accounting for Earth's curvature and refraction.
Dig straight down from anywhere and find out where you'd emerge — your antipodal point.
Find mapped summits near any point, with elevations where tagged, sorted by distance.
Locate the closest mapped lakes and rivers to any point — for paddling, fishing or curiosity.
Resolve any US point to its hydrologic unit — the watershed your rain belongs to.
Classify any location's climate with the Köppen system, computed from 30 years of ERA5 normals.
Gardening's favourite number: your plant hardiness zone from 24 winters of temperature data.
Check a US point against FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer for mapped Special Flood Hazard Areas.
See recent seismicity within 300 km of any point — the practical signature of active faults.
Your height + your terrain's elevation = how far the horizon sits, and how far two of you could spot each other.
The single point maximally far from where you stand — your antipode, 20,015 km of great circle away.
Sun & Moon
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon and day length for any place and date — NOAA algorithm, timezone-aware display.
How many hours of daylight does a place get on any date — and how it changes through the year.
Current moon phase, illumination, age in days, and the next new and full moons — for any date.
Compare up to six cities' local times and instantly see the UTC window where everyone is at work.
A full-year daylight chart for any location, with longest and shortest day — NOAA algorithm, local math.
Estimate annual solar production for any site from a year of real satellite radiation data.
Morning and evening golden-hour windows for any place and date — the photographer's light, computed.
Geographic Lines
Explore the Equator — 0° latitude — with an interactive map, country list and key facts.
Explore 0° longitude — the Prime Meridian through Greenwich — with an interactive map and facts.
Explore the zig-zag International Date Line near 180° longitude — where tomorrow meets yesterday.
Explore the Tropic of Cancer (23.44° N) — the northern limit of the overhead Sun.
Explore the Tropic of Capricorn (23.44° S) — the southern limit of the overhead Sun.
Explore the Arctic Circle (66.56° N) — the land of midnight sun and polar night.
Explore the Antarctic Circle (66.56° S) — the gateway to the polar south.
Places & Population
List major world cities within any radius of a point, sorted by distance — with export.
Estimate the population inside any radius from major-city data — instant, offline-capable math.
Two cities side by side: population, density, cost of living and the distance between them.
What salary matches your purchasing power in another city? Index-ratio math with a transparent baseline.
Visualise how tightly two cities live: people per km² with bars and the ratio between them.