Determine Elevation Profile on Internet???

[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?