openplans/OpenTripPlanner — Issue #563: elevation: cliffs at director park
Author: andrewbyrd
Created: 2011-11-10 16:03:13+00:00
State: open

For this bike trip through downtown Portland, the obvious thing to do is ride down the edge of the park blocks, both for safety and speed.

http://maps5.trimet.org/opentripplanner-webapp/index.html?submit&fromPlace=45.513934866581,-122.68516861908&toPlace=45.52542122653,-122.67922534945&mode=BICYCLE&min=TRIANGLE&triangleTimeFactor=0.5016501650165017&triangleSlopeFactor=0&triangleSafetyFactor=0.4983498349834983&maxWalkDistance=840&time=4:44%20pm&date=11/10/2011&arr=Depart&itinID=1

If you put "flattest" into the mix, you get a crazy path. Looking at the elevation profile of the fastest path, you can see that this is caused by a 50-foot deep hole right where director park is. Looking at NED data on http://seamless.usgs.gov/website/seamless/viewer.htm I see that the hole is actually in the original data.

This park is recent, and has a parking garage under it. I wonder if this is the hole they dug when constructing the parking garage.