| Mapping site that shows you road grades... cool! [message #202873] |
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RF_Burns
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After leaving the FMCA rally near Burlington VT last July, Paula and I meandered down along Lake Champlain and ended up staying in Lake George. Just before we got there we climbed a hill for about 4 miles at about 25mph so I've been looking for a site that shows the grade of a road.
I found a site that using Google Maps you enter a starting and an ending point. It then follows the road and give you the profile of the grade and it's %. The hill we climbed comes up at 4% over about 4 miles. Good thing we took that one, as the next road was 9% over 1.25miles (I didn't expand out to see if that was the entire climb or just a portion of it)
It calculates the grade based on distance and elevation from start to finish of your marked route. So if you hi-light going over a 200ft hill and back down the other side to the same elevation, your grade will be zero.
Site is: www.toporoute.com
Enjoy.
Bruce Hislop
ON Canada
77PB, 455 Dick P. rebuilt, DynamicEFI EBL EFI & ESC.
1 ton front end
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=29001
My Staff says I never listen to them, or something like that
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| Re: Mapping site that shows you road grades... cool! [message #203156 is a reply to message #202873] |
Sat, 30 March 2013 21:39  |
bukzin
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| rf_burns wrote on Thu, 28 March 2013 12:22 |
After leaving the FMCA rally near Burlington VT last July, Paula and I meandered down along Lake Champlain and ended up staying in Lake George. Just before we got there we climbed a hill for about 4 miles at about 25mph so I've been looking for a site that shows the grade of a road.
I found a site that using Google Maps you enter a starting and an ending point. It then follows the road and give you the profile of the grade and it's %. The hill we climbed comes up at 4% over about 4 miles. Good thing we took that one, as the next road was 9% over 1.25miles (I didn't expand out to see if that was the entire climb or just a portion of it)
It calculates the grade based on distance and elevation from start to finish of your marked route. So if you hi-light going over a 200ft hill and back down the other side to the same elevation, your grade will be zero.
Site is: www.toporoute.com
Enjoy.
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That link takes me to a bicycle map site. Is that correct?
If it is how do you 'hi-light your route' ?
Thanks!
Bukzin
1977 Palm Beach
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| Re: [GMCnet] Mapping site that shows you road grades... cool! [message #203178 is a reply to message #203172] |
Sun, 31 March 2013 09:02 |
powerjon
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There is a real good book available on road grades in the US.
http://www.mountaindirectory.com
JR Wright
78 Buskirk Stretch
Michigan
On Mar 31, 2013, at 8:25 AM, Bruce Hislop <bruce@perthcomm.com> wrote:
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> Yes, its a bicycle site, but the grade is the same for us as them.
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> Just click on the road at the beginning and the end of the grade. I then takes the straight line path and follows the road. Then under Actions, click Show Profile. It will open a new road showing the distance vs elevation change along with distance from begging to end and the grade in %.
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> Seems like it doesn't work for all roads through. I tried on the road through the Smokies and it didn't work.
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> Bruce Hislop
> ON Canada
> 77PB, 455 Dick P. rebuilt, DynamicEFI EBL EFI & ESC.
> Hubler 1 ton front end
> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=29001
> My Staff says I never listen to them, or something like that
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