<p>Is this really useful? What is that number? Is is the height difference between start and end points or the total height climbed minus total heigh descended?</p>
<p>There's also the question of whether this is useful for the purpose that routing existing on OSM which is to say for debugging the map - we're not trying to provide an end user routing service.</p>

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