Create Climb Profiles

Raam

anybody know of any software that will create climb profiles?
See here for what I'm thinking off.

I have a GPS do-hickey and I'm using SportTracks which creates an elevation profile, but not as snazzy or as informative as that in the link.

The attached pic shows what SportTracks gives.

Basically, I just want to experiment with creating a snazzy one. I've searched on the web, but not found anything, unless they just do it with Photoshop or somesuch.

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beans

The Google Pedometer does something similar, but it's probably a few notches short of what you're looking for in terms of accuracy and portability. Good for a play though.

Membrane

King Raam wrote:

Basically, I just want to experiment with creating a snazzy one. I've searched on the web, but not found anything, unless they just do it with Photoshop or somesuch.

The "Graphic Designer" attribution beneath the fancy looking graph image is a bit of a giveaway.

Apart from the named mountain tops in the fancy image, I don't find it any more informative than the SportTracks image.

What I personally would find helpful is being able to see a map beside such a graph, something like this: http://bombaydigital.com/articles/2006/09/20/1/garmin_screen_lg.png

Which is possible with the Garmin Edge software. I gather that the Edge data can also be mapped to Google Earth, but I haven't seen a screencap of that yet.

daymobrew

On the Paul Kavanagh site he has similar graphs, created by http://www.ciclosport.de, according to the page footer.

I have a Polar 625x watch and will get graphs like this one, though without the speed/cadence/power info.

I couldn't find any online stores selling the Ciclosport bike computers (tried bikedock, crc, cyclesuperstore, wiggle, evans).

Raam

Membrane wrote:

What I personally would find helpful is being able to see a map beside such a graph, something like this: http://bombaydigital.com/articles/2006/09/20/1/garmin_screen_lg.png

Which is possible with the Garmin Edge software. I gather that the Edge data can also be mapped to Google Earth, but I haven't seen a screencap of that yet.

the software with the Garmin (Training Center) is OK, however, I find SportTracks to be a bit more powerful. One handy feature is to show how a part of your climb relates to where you are on the map. Training Center does something similar, but this one is neater IMO.

declantm

You could try http://utrack.crempa.net/