nah, didn't really expect it...

[cellio]

It was unlikely, but it would be cool if MapQuest (or some similar service) provided a path-finding option that minimizes the expenditure of kinetic energy. For, y'know, pedestrians who want to take hills into account. The only customization option I see is "avoid highways", which I was going to do anyway. :-)

Oh well. I will just have to rely on my innate knowledge of the topography involved.

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Avoid highways . . .

[laid.livejournal.com]

Avoid highways avoids only limited access highways. One thing I did notice when I was planning the ride to my parents' house is that the "avoid highways" route is also pretty much the flattest route. Seems that someone took that into account when they built the US highway system back in the day. There are shorter routes from Scranton to Milford, but they have more hills.

Of course, rt 6 follows the Owego Turnpike alot of the way, and that's an old indian trail, but thats another story entirely.