help: how do i messure this hill?

blablablacksheep

there a hill i trying to messure and tryingto work out how steep it is:

i looked on multimap and using its OS mapping it gives the info.

but how the heck do i work out how steep it is,

bassically i know:

from the start of the hill the OS says 30, then the hill ends at 60. i understand maps but cannot for the life of me give a numbered reading for it.

heres the map link maybe you can help hopefilly:

http://www.multimap.com/maps/?fav=2#map ... dfavourite


any one know??

C-S-B

hi,

Sorry if Im interpreting this wrong, but I gather the hill starts at an altitude of 30 (metres?) and finishes at 60, so to work out the gradient, find out the distance and then slot into this formula;

grade (steepness) = ( altitude gain / distance travelled ) x 100

dave_hill

Or another way of doing it is to work it out as a ratio, rather than a percentage -

So your hill has an altitude gain of 30 metres from start to finish.

The next thing is to measure the distance between the start and finish points - for argument's sake, lets say it's 600 metres (just to make the maths easier...)

Now, expressed as a fraction, that's 30/600. If we divide the lot by 30, that gives us 1/20 - so your hill is a 1-in-20 gradient (i.e on average you gain 1 metre of altitude for every 20 metres travelled).

Peasy.

Of course, this only applies if the gradient is constant from start to finish - which it more often than not isn't.

blablablacksheep

the thing was i wasnt sure if the map was metres i 99.99% sure OS maps are metres but the multimap site made me confused by having a bar underneeth saying;

= 500 yards.. so as you can see the easy part messuring distance wasnt as easy as you need to convert a bit.

can you confirm that dave is right about that formular?

sniper68

Which hill/area is it?