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Old March 30th 18, 05:28 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc
Joy Beeson
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Default AG: Changing Seasons

On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:46:48 -0400, Joy Beeson
wrote:

Cool! Google Maps now shows a chart of elevations when in bicycle
mode. Or maybe that's only when I log in with Firefox;


With Pale Moon, Google works as it always has.

I've been less elated with the elevations that I can see on Firefox
after a route that I studiously avoid because the road up one steep
hill doesn't have any comfortable place to walk was rated as "mostly
flat". So I reduced the route to that one climb and was assured that
it was a gentle slope -- downhill. Perhaps the chart puts the
destination on the left?

With the "gentle slope" bit I have no argument. Fifteen years ago I
could have managed that hill without so much as switchbacking.

On the other hand, I accidentally discovered that the draggable
waypoints that were removed a few years ago are back! Moreover, when
you hover over a waypoint, the directions for that point appear as a
tooltip.

So I'm using Firefox to plot tomorrow's ride.

Up until now, I've been using Firefox only for reading PDF files.
Which I hardly ever do, because converting a file to PDF is so easy
that most of the PDF files on the Web are random slop.

My spouse just printed out a PDF giving instructions for planting the
asparagus we just bought. *That's* what PDF is for!

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