Whats the Path Profiler?
The Path Profiler is a quick hack to generate an elevation profile for an arbitrary path. Build a path, hit “calculate profile,” and you’ll get the elevation profile (the hills and valleys you’d traverse as you travel that path). You can add points to the path by clicking on the map or by entering addresses and hitting “Find.” If you hit “get route” the system (actually, Google’s system) will find a smooth driving route between the last two points on the path. The UI is unapologetically anachronistic; how often do you see a button labelled “backspace” in a web 2.0 application? But before going too far with adding new features — allowing editing/importing/exporting of routes, adding more detail to the profile, building the click-here-and-see-stuff-lit-up-there interactivity of the main site — we want to know how you’d like to use the site. Planning a cross country bicycle trip? Running out of gas and need to know how far you can coast? What’s your application?
