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Archived Support / Elevation profile questions

« on: January 11, 2005, 03:53:00 PM »

User error. My problem was that I was taking the co-ordinates from the Topofusion map to determine the DEM files needed, and they were displayed in decimal format of degrees, not actual degrees as required by the web site. Once I did the conversion and grabbed the right files things began to work. Thanks again.

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Archived Support / Elevation profile questions

« on: January 11, 2005, 06:45:36 AM »

Thank you for the quick response. I will double check that I have all the DEM files in question later today. As for what Topofusion shows in the climbing analysis, it's zero feet for everything. When I look at the individual track points, they all have an elevation of -107499 feet.

Also, in the preferences drop down, under the units tab, I changed the datum selection to NAD27 United States. It defaulted upon install to one of the WGS values. I assumed this was the correct thing to do based on the description of the DEM files. It was just a guess on my part though.

By the way, a very fun product. I hope I can get this to work. Easily worth 40$!

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Archived Support / Elevation profile questions

« on: January 10, 2005, 03:54:47 PM »

I recently came across this product, and thought I would try the demo version first to see if I liked it and so forth. I do a lot of running in the country, and while tracking distance for me is not a problem I am curious about elevation profiles during my runs. I do not run with a GPS.

In any event, I manually mapped one of my simpler runs to get a feel for the software, and then became curious about the elevation changes. I soon found out about downloading DEMS and all of that business from searching this message board.

I think I have done everything properly. There seems to be 2 DEM files needed to cover the area in my run based on the boundary co-ordinates. I downloaded these, ran them through the STDS2DEM.EXE program, made sure they were in the proper folder, etc. Still when I try to do a climbing analysis on my route, it keeps saying the track covers missing DEM files.

Is it because I'm using the Demo version of topofusion or is there something else that I am missing? Also, if I do get this working and register and purchase the product will I get more up-to-date maps? The road maps are very out of date for my area.

For reference, I pulled the Dems from this location: http://64.83.8.153/SDTS_DL_b.htm