I built a website that helps users lookup the elevation of any place on earth.

Sometimes I really need to know the elevation of a specific location on earth. But there is not a easy way to get the information. For big cities, you can search "xxxx elevation" in google, and google will show the elevation information directly to you. But what if I wanna see a un-named place?

So I tried to build a website by my own. It is now published as the worldwide elevation finder. you can search for any address, or click on anywhere on the map to see the elevation information.

Then I came up with another idea, I can use the same script to build another site that can help users lookup the sunrise and sunset time.  But things never really that easy. I can get sunrise and sunset times of any place on earth. But if I display it to user, I need to know the timezone information of that place.  Finally, I found google provide timezone search service.  So my sunrise sunset times lookup tool is online now.

The reason why I am using sub-domains( sunrise.maplogs.com and elevation.maplogs.com ) instead of top domains is that I consider these websites as small parts of my main site (even if the main site is empty now).

My big plan is to build a map based playing and sharing website. Users on my site can explorer different places on different maps or modes. If they found an interesting place, they can save it to their account on my site, then share it with friends.  For example, users can share street views, 3d view of satellite maps, normal satellite map and panoramio images.