TL;DR Average grade over long routes hides nasty short climbs. I wrote a script that calculates gradient every 50m and color-codes the elevation profile, so you can actually see the painful bits.
I’m training for the Camino de Santiago on a bike. I live in Barcelona and only have a single-gear bike, which means steep hills = death for my knees. So I’ve been looking for good route-planning tools that don’t lock everything behind paywalls.
TL;DR Definitely worth it. Even with a solid (not AI-focused) setup spending around €300, the return on investment is under a year, and the freedom you gain is hard to beat.
The journey begins
Sometime in mid-2022, I started playing around with the idea of reclaiming privacy and taking back ownership of my data and media. I began with a Raspberry Pi 4 and a 32GB microSD card. Now I’ve ended up with a mini PC, 16GB RAM, 2TB NVMe, and a solid home setup.