Why does my imported route have no elevation profile, and will it get one?

Because the file had none. Plenty of tools, OS Maps among them, export a route as bare coordinates with no heights attached. Without heights there is no profile, no climb total, and nothing for your head unit to show you about the climbs ahead. So when an imported file carries no heights of its own, we work them out from the same elevation data we use for routes you draw here. The profile appears shortly after the import finishes, which can take a moment on a long route. If the file does carry heights, we keep them exactly as they are and never replace them with ours.

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