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I am wanting to calculate total elevation loss and gain at the end of recording Core Location data. I am having a hard time thinking of the math for this one.

Say if I started at 600 feet and I go up and down during the tracking, how would I calculate my elevation gain and loss?

Ideas?

Nic Hubbard
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If you wanted to track gain and loss separately, keep two cumulative member variables, netElevationLoss and netElevationGain, both initialized to 0. 

- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateToLocation:(CLLocation *)newLocation fromLocation:(CLLocation *)oldLocation {
    if(oldLocation == nil)
        return;

    double elevationChange = oldLocation.altitude - newLocation.altitude;
    if (elevationChange < 0)
    {
        netElevationLoss += fabs(elevationChange);
    }
    else
    {
        netElevationGain += elevationChange;
    }
}

You could also track total change using this method since 

netElevationChange = netElevationGain - netElevationLoss

at any time.

matheeeny
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If you go up, increase one number. If you go down, increase (or decrease?) the other.

Exactly how you decide to handle noise is up to you...

tc.
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