Is there a site that will calculate mileage/elevation for hikes?

Technetium · Apr 29, 2013

I know that you can have a smart phone track your route, and then go to a site and upload the data and have it tell you how many miles you did and how much elevation gain you did. But is there a site that will let you enter the information manually? Somewhere that you can perhaps trace a path on a map with the mouse?

Tom Rankin · Apr 29, 2013

Not a site, but Garmin Mapsource s/w can do this.

Technetium · Apr 29, 2013

Excellent. I did a Google search for that, and while it has been removed from being offered, they've replaced it with something called BaseCamp:
http://www.garmin.com/en-US/shop/downloads/basecamp

Quietman · Apr 29, 2013

I use Gmaps Pedometer all the time. You can switch from road maps to terrain maps. It's low tech, but so am I!

peakbagger · Apr 29, 2013

I use Terrain Navigator, it is USGS based so the trail locations are not as up to date as some of the other software out there. It does link to most GPS units.

sdways01 · Apr 29, 2013

The AMC online guide gives distances and elevation gains between all the intersections and summits in their printed guide. You can't do a partial section of trail, but if you want to know from the base to a certain intersection it works great. It keeps track of overall gain as well as accumulated gain. I use this to get an idea before the hike how long it is and much gain I can expect.
Online guide

Technetium · Apr 29, 2013

Quietman said:
I use Gmaps Pedometer all the time. You can switch from road maps to terrain maps. It's low tech, but so am I!

So I put in my route here... http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5910388

How do I get it to show the total elevation gain?

DougPaul · Apr 29, 2013

National Geographic TOPO! can also do this.

Both NG TTOPO! and Garmin MapSource can also compute the distance and elevation for GPS tracks too.

Doug

Quietman · Apr 29, 2013

Technetium said:
So I put in my route here... http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5910388

How do I get it to show the total elevation gain?

Sorry. I thought that it did, but I guess that it's even lower tech than I remembered. It just shows the elevation map.

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