Accuracy of total ascent and descent in Basecamp

Former Member over 6 years ago

After several hikes with me using a Garmin eTrex 25 and fellow walkers using ViewRanger, they typically report ascent and descent figures which are about half that Basecamp reports. Am I getting errors due to sampling noise? Are there any settings in Basecamp to improve the accuracy of these figures? In the eTrex I have the highest resolution UK Ordnance Survey maps, which at least our route overlays on in Basecamp. I have no idea if that affects the route summary at all.

Any advice on whether this is a Garmin problem, or a ViewRanger problem. If it’s a Garmin problem, it’s a bit galling that a free app is twice the accuracy of the Garmin. Like a lot of folks I’m interested in how much I have climbed and descended.

im using the windows version of Basecamp.

Thanks in advance

0 Eyelet99 over 6 years ago in reply to Eyelet99

I looked at the Ascent data in the Current Activity screen yesterday and it too is simply presenting the same data as gets written to the Summary data in the GPX file ... so we still need a new data field to be developed.