Meander is a Mac application designed for measuring distances, shapes, and areas on your desktop. This program might come in handy when planning a road trip and wish to know exactly how many kilometers you have to drive until you reach your destination point.
The utility is very simple to use. In my testing, I launched the Maps application (default Mac OS X app for managing world maps) and placed Meander's main window on top of it. Then, I used my mouse to indicate the route and selected the measuring unit. Meander immediately displayed the distance on the upper side of its interface.
Another great aspect is that you can print the routes or shapes you draw.
Still, the program is quite plain if you ask me. There are countless online solutions, like Google Maps service, that provide you with a quicker way to calculate distances as well as travel time, without the need to install a third-party application on your Mac.
With that being said, I don't thing it's worth installing this app on your computer. You can find better solutions online, without paying a buck or installing third-party tools on your Mac.
v3.1 [Dec 15, 2014]
•Adds two built-in area units, hectare (ha) and acre (ac)
•Handles units which are linear and squared for area (eg mile) and now also units which are areas only (eg acre)
•Allows user to add additional area units, so if you wish to compare large areas to the area of Wales, you can!
•Pro tip - to add Wales as a unit, the conversion factor you need to enter is 4556.42 (the number of metres along one side of a square of this unit)
•Applies 'hilliness' slider to area as well as distance
•Values of the hilliness slider revised.
•At its maximum setting, it applies an adjustment equivalent to a 66% / 32 degree slope over the entire length of the route or over the entire enclosed area
•Note that the effect of the hilliness slider is logarithmic which is appropriate
•Preferences window now stays on top of acetate window, which is more user-friendly when acetate window is used full-screen. It can be moved or closed, even while drawing a line, and of course recalled with cmd-comma
