Upcoming elevation without selecting route

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Pieter Olivier

• December 26, 2019 22:51

Is there a way to build in a feature to show the upcoming elevation of your ride without having selected a route. This would be an awesome feature that is also lacking in other bike computers. Surely base on your position and the direction you’re moving in it should not be too hard to show future elevation. You can set the AI to assume you’re going to ride the most common route based on Strava heatmaps, for example, or just make a general assumption (you’ll continue to the end of the current road you’re moving on and if there’s a T-junction you’ll turn left).

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  Chris White

  • January 01, 2020 16:10

  That sounds incredibly complicated and unreliable and not worth spending time on IMO. In addition, if the base map doesn't include elevation data, which I expect it doesn't, then the device would not even know that information.

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  Piergiorgio Ghezzo

  • January 01, 2020 20:08

  But it's possible to show the past elevation, to have an idea about what you did.

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  Pieter Olivier

  • January 01, 2020 23:30

  @Chris White, you’ve clearly never climb a hill wile seeing the upcoming elevation profile. It’s extremely, extremely useful! The only problem is, you can only see the upcoming elevation if you selected a route. Every bike computer (or the decent ones) have maps on it, personally I can’t see why it can’t show the elevation 100m ahead on the road you’re traveling on. Shouldn’t be that complicated if you use one or two basic assumptions to predict the direction you’re expected to head to based on the direction you’re going...

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  Pieter Olivier

  • January 01, 2020 23:32

  To be clear. I’m talking about the elevation profile.

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  Hari Krishnan

  • January 02, 2020 10:20

  Hi Pieter,

  We completely understand your point. Currently, the upcoming elevation won't be available without a Route. I am considering your message as feedback and forwarding this to the software team. They will be happy to discuss this.

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  Gerald Ruis

  • January 11, 2020 09:50

  That would be really great. My Garmin can do that too (2 pictures attached).

  

  

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  Chris White

  • January 11, 2020 12:18

  Do the base maps on the device even include elevation data? Often free maps do not, only the paid versions do.

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  brian chavez

  • February 04, 2020 19:11

  si es muy necesario la elevacion sin cargar ruta, ojala y le den la importancia para los amantes del mtb

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  Adrian Borrallo

  • February 08, 2021 14:05

  I also agree that elevation profile should be available without having to select a route. I mean, if the GPS knows where the rider is located, it should not be very difficult. This is a very important feature for a rider that is exploring an area without having a predefined route. I used my K2 for the first time on Sunday and was quite disappointed that the historical elevation graph was occupying more than half of the screen without actually working...

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  Hari Krishnan

  • February 08, 2021 16:23

  @Andrian: This is exactly where we are heading towards and we have already kickstarted this project. You will see incremental implementations with regards to upcoming Elevation in the coming releases.

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