User talk:Tim

Elevation Gain/Elevation Loss Convention question from what I see you doing. Positive for gain, negative for loss? Does the order make a difference? What happens if Loss is first, then Gain? --Vhasler (talk) 18:46, 29 September 2015 (MDT)

Straight from Google Earth elevation profile for the KML. The amount of climbing up or climbing down one-way on a trail. A perfectly flat descending hike would have 0' gain, but could have 2,000' loss in 0.5 miles, making it a hard hike back that I think would have been lost with just reporting gain before. Ultimately more data to help understand hike difficulty (short of looking at an elevation profile). --Tim (talk) 19:01, 29 September 2015 (MDT)

Also, if you're updating trail pages, please update the IB data section. I've been just copying the new layout from the template page, copying over data as needed from the old to the new, deleting the obsoleted parts, then deleting the old template call. I learned how to have instructional text on template pages instead of seeing an error filled template. It includes descriptions of what each of the variables are for, possibly answering your initial question. --Tim (talk) 18:51, 30 September 2015 (EDT)