I notice that Cycle.travel now seems to show the total elevations at a lot less they actually are ........it's not done this is the past. I recently cycled a trip in Spain and some days it was over 1000 feet more when i cycled the route than it showed when i plotted it. I am heading to Portugal next week and a friend has sent me the route for a run he plotted on another site - his route shows 4137 feet but when I download to to Cycle.travel is shows 2900feet - quite a difference?
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If you can give an example of the saved route that would help a lot.
Bear in mind there’s no “right answer” on elevation even from devices that record your ride – every site or device has its own way of calculating the total climb. In particular, rail trails, towpaths, narrow valleys and steep hillsides can be very different. I’m always tweaking the calculations on cycle.travel so it’s useful to have examples of where you think it might be getting it wrong.
I've noticed something too that I think might be related, to do with gradients. These appear to have reduced a lot in a number of my saved rides. The example attached has two climbs that now show a maximum gradient of around 8% when they used to show nearly double that. I think the previous values are much closer to being correct than the latest ones as the gradients on these climbs definitely get well into double digits.
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I might be wrong but was that screenshot taken a couple of days ago? If so then try again now – I’ve made a few further adjustments.
The screenshot was from Saturday but it looks like the issue I'm having is to do with the saved ride. I tried again and if I input the route from scratch the maximum gradients come out at nearly double those on the screenshot, so it's looking good - it's only if I reload the saved ride I get the same result as above.