Not for distance, however when you start doing fuel calculations it gets counted in
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angrystego@lemmy.world 4 months agoAnd what about navigation, does it count the slopes in? Is the route actually longer than it says if you travel up and down mountains?
Natanael@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
It’s probably aware of them, but generally no. Most slippers for driving on are smooth enough to be pretty negligible unless you’re going hundreds of miles or more, in which case fives of miles won’t make much difference either.
But if you’re traveling by bike those small slopes may make some parts of the ride significantly more difficult or easier, and for cars may impact fuel efficiency in a way much more significant than just counting the extra distance traveled. So many navigation systems will still account for slope, even if they don’t necessarily acknowledge the length of your path as precisely as you may have hoped