I’ve just got a palm PC, with windows mobile and memory map installed on it. I’ve uploaded GPS tracks into memory map and on my PC, and also converted the files into GPX format and viewed them with Google Earth. What I can’t manage to do though, is work out the total ascent on a run! Memory map will display an elevation profile, but I’ve not got the time to add up all the individual rises nor will it be as accurate.

Does anybody have some kind of simple programme that will take a GPX or memory map overlay file and calculate the total ascent? It doesn’t seem that hard a thing to do, although it probably wouldn’t be particularly useful to non fell runners.