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18 May 2023
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Apologies if asked before (couldn't find a search tool on the forum?)

When planning my long distance bike packing routes I now always use cycle.travel but currently have this open in another screen: https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/.

Is there any possibility of adding this kind of shading so you can try and route around the hills for self-routed ultra events?

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Comments

Sun 21 May 2023, 09:40

That’s an interesting idea! Unfortunately it doesn’t look like topographic-map.com provides any map tiles we could use. In theory I could generate my own tiles like that but I fear that generating a new set of elevation tiles would gobble up space on the server pretty quickly. So it’s probably a “not for now” but I do wonder whether there might be some trickery that would allow me to one day reuse the elevation tiles for the mobile app.