I’m not sure exactly how to explain this, but here goes: I can control how data is displayed; I can not control how it is stored.
For example, I may set up my GPS to show position in degrees and minutes or degrees, minutes and seconds, or perhaps as UTM grid coordinates. Regardless of what is displayed, the position will always be saved in decimal degrees. Values will be positive for East Longitude/North Latitude and negative for West Longitude/South Latitude. I have no control over this.
I do not know what you mean by viewing on the internet. But on that website there is either an option to set units or there is not.
Seems as if the language choice in the upper right corner sets the distance type. If you change from "English" to "Norsk" for example, it will change to km. This of course only affects the language of the Garmin-provided screen legends and tab titles, not how you type in the description, so one might not think to change it. But it kind of makes sense.
Yes, it does appear that the website is using language to determine display units. I expect this will change in the near future.
I don’t know that much about adventures, but among other things, it appears to contain a GPS track. What a track file (or your adventure file) saves/stores is latitude and longitude (always in the format of my earlier post), a time stamp for that point (always in UTC) and an elevation (always in meters).
Things like distance, duration, ascent, descent and accumulated distance for the x values in the elevation plot all need to be calculated. They are not read from the file.
thanks for your answears! :o hmmm..., sorry I didn't see the language choice!!! Anyway: sometimes it works fine, and sometimes not at all. example: http://adventures.garmin.com/en-US/by/terjeb/02-02-13-skitur-fr-seteren-kikut-sandungen/ Try switching beetween different languages, and the route sometimes disappear. It sems to be a rather bad solution! As a norwegian I would like to publish it i metric values. And if someone in UK (very unlikely) would like to watch my skiing activities, he/her should do the language choice. Should we hope for a change ?
You always upload the data in the native GPS units (which happen to be metric). Then, depending on who views the adventure they get it in their language and their units. So if I browse to adventures.garmin.com/by/terjeb/02-02-13-skitur-fr-seteren-kikut-sandungen/ I see it in English and with statute units (feet, etc.).
You can force the language (and unit) by providing the language in the URL. So adventures.garmin.com/de-DE/by/terjeb/02-02-13-skitur-fr-seteren-kikut-sandungen would force it to be in German (and metric).
Sorry about the confusion. Having the language and unit selectable on the web-site is on our list of things to do.
.... Then, depending on who views the adventure they get it in their language and their units.
That's not strictly true, Falagar. Selecting English forces Imperial measurement. I'm in Canada so I want English. But I don't want American measurements; I want metric.
If language is going to be used to determine measurements then the language choices should reflect the proper measurements. Thus, if you want to force Imperial measurement with the English language you should have "English (Imperial)". For other English-speaking users who need metric, there should be "English (Metric)".
That's not strictly true, Falagar. Selecting English forces Imperial measurement. I'm in Canada so I want English. But I don't want American measurements; I want metric.
If language is going to be used to determine measurements then the language choices should reflect the proper measurements. Thus, if you want to force Imperial measurement with the English language you should have "English (Imperial)". For other English-speaking users who need metric, there should be "English (Metric)".
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I am aware that the way we do this now is flawed. The web team is aware of this as well, this should get fixed in a future update.
