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Zivi / FlattestRoute

Flattest Route - Google Maps directions with elevation info
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Bridges #3

Closed jaegs closed 11 years ago

jaegs commented 11 years ago

Cool tool!

This may or may not be possible to fix; however, FlattestRoute reports the elevation of a bridge as the ground below and not the bridge itself.

BrookeDot commented 11 years ago

The Elevation data seems to be coming from Google Maps API. Not sure if there is an API that allows for "street level" elevation.

jaegs commented 11 years ago

Does Google Maps tell the location of bridges? Perhaps, then, the bridge elevation could be estimated as a linear slope between the heights of the two bridge endpoints. If possible, I think that would be more accurate than taking the height of the ground underneath the bridge.

Zivi commented 11 years ago

It's a known issue that I don't intend to fix, unless a simple solution can be found.

For now, we are at the mercy of Google Elevation API.