Determine Elevation Profile on Internet???

[witeowl]

OK, I know that there are many websites at which I can design a route and know exactly how many miles I'll be doing. But, is there a way I can design a route and know what the elevation/hill profiles will be?

I have a Garmin, so I can figure out how much I accomplished afterwards, but I'm afraid of just wandering around and getting into a canyon that I'm not ready for and absolutely tears me down.

[Fredwina]

Two that I know of are gmap-pedometer.com and toporoute.com . I'm sure there's others....

[Veronica]

Not sure if all Garmins do this. I program my route on my laptop and can then look at in Google Earth. It won't give me total elevation, but at least I have an idea of where I'm going. Then I transfer it to the Garmin. I have the 60CSx.

V.

[DeniseGoldberg]

routeslip.com will show you an elevation profile after you create your route. I suspect there are other sites out there also - it seems that many of these sites are based on Google maps, so they all end up with similar capabilities.

--- Denise

[Cassandra_Cain]

routeslip.com will show you an elevation profile after you create your route. I suspect there are other sites out there also - it seems that many of these sites are based on Google maps, so they all end up with similar capabilities.

--- Denise

Wow - this is sooooo neat - as I'd been trying my hardest to figure out the elevation profile of my favorite route. Thanks for sharing

[luv'nAustin]

sorry, I'm hihacking this thread for a minute. Just wondering if you could tell me how long your battery lasts on your garmin. My DH gave me one recently and I have found that the battery only lasts for 50 miles. Is this normal?

Thanks!

[SnappyPix]

I tried using Google map to work out my elevation, but it didn't work for me.
When I clicked on a location a few kilometres away from my house, it had the altitude as 45 metres - in the middle of the ocean! I tried this several times, but still got the same reading.
The reading for my house was 8 metres. I subsequently bought a Polar S725 and calibrated the altitude at sea level - my house actually has an altitude of64 metres - that's quite a discrepancy!
I'm not sure if this is because NZ isn't properly covered by GoogleMaps yet - although my particular area was pretty well detailed.

[SouthernBelle]

Routeslips is great esp for the US. I'm not so sure about internationally though.

My only problem is that when I done a hard ride with lots of climbs, then go put it in routeslips only to discover that I hadn't climbed as much as I thought!

[GLC1968]

toporoute.com is nice because if you choose to use the option, it'll 'snap' to the curves of the roads for you. This is great when you live in an area where there are no straight roads!

It does have a size limit though. It wouldn't save my 75 mile ride for me.

[cherinyc]

All of the recommendations on this thread are FANTABULOUS!!! I have been looking for this ability for months now, and not having it has made me hesitant to go out on rides alone - since I wasn't able to plan a route according to distance, direction, etc. There are so many back country roads around where I am, and I am afraid I will get lost (and up riding 50 miles when I have planned to do 20) if I don't plan my route with some kind of cue sheet - directions, etc.
Only complaint is that I went to routeslip.com and created an account - and a route - and the stupid site won't let me see the route now. I sent a "bug-report" but, we'll see.
The toporoute.com site is great b/c you can have it follow the road - i don't think there are any straight roads out here, it's crazy curvy (like me ). I wish the distance showed up while you were plotting the route though, rather than it being on a separate page.
oh well. i am just really happy to learn about them. Thanks everyone!!!
cheri

[SadieKate]

Will routeslip work better if you decrease the zoom level? Can you open the route and change that, resave and see the route?

http://www.routeslip.com/map.php?map=2980

[witeowl]

You guys rock, thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for! I even found some new cycling routes that other people have created.

Oh, and my Garmin (301) claims to last 13 hours, but all I know for sure is that it's lasted over eight. If it's on warranty, I'd get it checked out. If not, perhaps you can replace the rechargable battery?

You should have seen my face when I dropped it onto concrete yesterday, though. No significant harm, but I did crack the screen and it's affected part of the display. My baby!

Thanks again.

[SouthernBelle]

Routeslips is done by a cyclist, not by any big company. So the guy is still working out bugs. My laptop does not like the site. But it works fine on my desktop. So anywho, he seems like a nice guy and is putting in a lot of work.

[cherinyc]

Will routeslip work better if you decrease the zoom level? Can you open the route and change that, resave and see the route?

http://www.routeslip.com/map.php?map=2980

eghhhhh - no. don't think that's working. i tried going to Edit - then shrinking it down, hitting Save - then reopening. It just says "Loading... Please wait." where the map should be - and at the bottom of the page it just says "Done" with the icon that looks like the one in our "Post Icons" the yellow triangle w/ the ! inside.

Either way, the cyclist that created this is very smart for doing so.
I work off of a laptop that is connected to a docking station at work. maybe that's why it's not working?

[luv'nAustin]

Thanks Witeowl! I will have REI take a look at it, and at the same time I'll see if they can get the cadence to work too. It is fun to look at the rides on a map. Makes me want to try some new routes!