The ratio will depend a lot of the length of the route: Longer routes will generally have a ratio closer to 1. Urban routes is also likely to be closer to 1, since the road network is more dense in towns.
Mine is 6.2 km / 5.6 km = 1.11. This is very close to a straight line, when you look at a map. Kind regards Uffe Kousgaard www.routeware.dk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christof Kaiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 4:08 PM Subject: MI-L weekend question: ratio between like the crow flies and road distance Hi out there, on my push bike, I have a Garmin Geko 201 mounted on, which is a wonderful device. Since it does not have street data on it, I am navigating with compass directions. The remaining distance the unit returns to reach the desired waypoint is of course like the crow flies. However, as a cyclist, I stick to the roads. Does anybody have experiences which the common ration between the straight distance and the road distance is? Sure, you are right if you say: depends on the road network! However, for the region I am living in ( 7�13'13"E 51�29'18"N ), I experienced a more or less constant factor around 1.45 . To make it sound more scientific, I ll simply call it square route(2). Does anybody have values for other regions? Cheers Christof --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 11257
