Building a hiking trail difficulty rating from elevation data
A trail guide app was rating hikes as easy, moderate, or difficult based on distance alone, which put a flat six-mile walk in the same bucket as a six-mile climb.
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Estimate a route's total elevation gain
Sum the upward changes between consecutive points along a route to get one elevation gain figure straight from raw latitude and longitude data.
Build an elevation profile for a hiking or cycling route
Send a list of points along a route and get the elevation at each one back in a single request, ready to chart without further lookups.