[pct-l] PCT Google Map - just added elevations to the mileages.

[Tortoise]

Postholer, you are amazing!

Tortoise

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Postholer wrote:
> ELEVATIONS have just been added to the PCT map. You now have over 12,000 
> mileage/elevation pairs; that's almost 5 per mile! The mileages are 
> calculated from 257,285 trail coordinates from the USFS kml.
>
> Also, an update to the 'mouse click' behavior. If you click on the trail 
> (blue line) at 2 different locations, the second click will give you the 
> distance between those 2 points as well as the time it takes to hike it at 
> different hiking speeds.
>
> Here's the PCT:
> http://postholer.com/gmap/gmap.php?trail=pct
>
> ...and the Grand Enchantment Trail:
> http://postholer.com/gmap/gmap.php?trail=get
>
> Even though adding elevations is done by the computer, it is a very time 
> consuming process. The Appalachian Trail and the John Muir trail maps will 
> have elevations in a day or two, they already have mileages.
>
> If you find this feature too much on an older, slower computer click the 
> 'Hide Distances' link. This will cause the maps to behave as they did before 
> the addition of mileages/elevations.
>
> -postholer
>
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