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--- "Eric Lee (RAT)" <elee@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Topo! tends to overestimate elevation gain and loss.
>  I think this is
> because the software traces a very literal
> connect-the-dots profile
> along the route, whereas if you actually got out on
> the trail and looked
> at it, you'd find that it tends to smooth out some
> of the high-frequency
> jiggling by winding this way and that as it goes

I also find that Topo! tends to UNDERestimate mileage
by about 10% or so - probably because of this same
winding this way and that.

Bill "AsABat" Jeffrey



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