Altitude Display?

[Kent-2]

I particularly enjoy routes in mountainous terrain, with their steep climbs, rapid descents and beautiful scenery. I note that the "compass" in ORTS provides a seemingly accurate depiction of direction, as well as world coordinates. What would also be informative is a display of altitude; i.e., how far above sea level the (lead) engine is at any moment. Or, if not sea level, the baseline for the selected route. Does anyone know of a tool or utility that will do this sort of thing? Thank you.

[eric]

It should be really simple to add if isn't already present somewhere. All of the measurements for height are meters above sea level.

I'm sitting on the side of the mountain today and don't have my open rails pc, but I do know one of the track monitor gauges does show you the grade, and might show the elevation.

One thing you may need to be aware of is that if you are on some of the older routes that have high elevations, they adjusted those downward because there was a limit as to how high msts could render a route. I believe it may have been 5,000 m or something like that. So, the digital elevation mapping was lowered by 5,000 m for some of the Colorado Narrow Gauge routes and maybe a few others in the Alps or near the Himalayas where the mountain scenery needed to be considerably higher than the limit.

[Kent-2]

Thanks Eric. I have tried to examine all the text-readable files for a couple of routes but nothing useful has popped up. Darn.