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JimK

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Elevation profiles
« on: May 17, 2014, 02:24:25 PM »
Elevation profiles added to google maps! I tried it - sure enough!

http://www.hngn.com/articles/31582/20140517/google-maps-now-show-elevation-statistics-bikers.htm

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Re: Elevation profiles
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2014, 07:06:33 PM »
If I knew there was a hill up ahead then I wouldn't go - so not going to use it !

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Re: Elevation profiles
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2014, 09:07:22 PM »
I tried it also.
Didn't work for me.I tried the big hill out of Fort Augustus, to the East of Loch Ness. Its a killer.
What should I have seen?
Is there a button to press? I was in the bike setting.

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JimK

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Re: Elevation profiles
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2014, 09:17:13 PM »
Seems you need to be using the "directions" function, yeah in bike mode. Also if the route is mostly flat then it won't show a profile.

Here is a screen shot:


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Re: Elevation profiles
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2014, 10:12:26 PM »
We ain't got nothing but hills, but Ireland is apparently not in the database, so all our roads are shown as flat. I use the Ordinance Survey printed map, which shows the contour lines. when they get too close together, I don't go there.

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Re: Elevation profiles
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2014, 01:55:28 AM »
Thanks, Jim.  Ummmm, maybe:  I tried to check a couple of 14% grades, both up & down, which I know in the Madawaska Highlands.  Your note on using the "directions" icon & the bike helped, but the drill proved to unsatisfactory (as I find Google's new map formats generally):  Wretched thing wanted to redirect me to a route I didn't want (jeez, there aren't many roads there, after all!) and, once I did persuade it to blue-highlight *my* route, the thing wouldn't remain visible on the map. Piqued, no doubt, by my stubborn desire to ride clockwise, so's to have the Wind At My Back going up the 14-per-centers. (Doesn't Google know anything about prevailing winds??)

So -- good idea, lousy execution, here, anyway: 2.2 / 10  No point complaining to Google though -- try, & you get sent to a Forum where hundreds of lost and frustrated souls seek Explanations For The Unexplained. Reckon I'll stay with my archaic but wirebound & nicely topographically shaded "Eastern Ontario Backroad Mapbook"; and trust to Osi's trick new low-low gears to get me up whatever lies ahead.  :-)

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Re: Elevation profiles
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2014, 11:28:42 AM »
Was not working for me until I clicked on the try the new google maps.  Does not give elevations in the older format.

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Re: Elevation profiles
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2014, 04:43:36 PM »
i only go over climbs /hill if i have no choice in the matter,i really don't want to know there a cat 1 climb on my route it would surly put me off riding it.
Andre up my way i guess the hardest climbs are the cooley and mourne mountains and once a year is plenty enough to tackle them ;)



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Re: Elevation profiles
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2014, 09:24:39 PM »
Andre up my way i guess the hardest climbs are the cooley and mourne mountains and once a year is plenty enough to tackle them ;)

This will be a tough year to get up there for the annual pilgrimage up the Cooley and the Mourne, Anto. Perhaps you can go twice up each and tell the mountain spirit at the top the second climb is for me, and I send greetings from a (much) smaller local hill.

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Re: Elevation profiles
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2014, 10:01:54 PM »
i'll scribble your name on the road just beside the long womans grave there for all time. ;)


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Re: Elevation profiles
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2014, 10:23:45 PM »
i'll scribble your name on the road just beside the long womans grave there for all time. ;)

 :-*

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Re: Elevation profiles
« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2014, 10:31:00 PM »
 8) ;)