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Running activity export missing GPS metadata

Former Member over 5 years ago

I'm exporting a bunch of my running activities as GPX files and I noticed there are fields for Number of Satellites, PDOP, and some other GPS metadata, but they're all blank for all of my activities. Does anyone know how to get that data, or how to enable the device to record it? I'm using the Vivoactive3.

0 trux over 5 years ago

I do not think that those data fields are being logged and exported. Personally, I do not have those fields in my GPX files at all (Garmin Instinct), and it would also make little sense to me, since the data is irrelevant to the fitness tracking. It would just take much more room in memory and would be useless for 99.9999% of users. Do you really see those empty fields in the GPX file when you view it with a simple text editor like Notepad, or just after importing it to some GPS application?

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to trux

I see them when I import the GPX files to some software I'm using to aggregate/play with it a little. It's a data ETL software so it's pretty thorough; maybe the GPX file just makes those fields by default, it would make sense for an actual GPS unit to record them, but it does seem a little unnecessary for a GPS watch. I still wish it did though! The data nerd in me wants to see all that.

0 trux over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

Unknown said:
I see them when I import the GPX files to some software I'm using to aggregate/play with it a little.

Open the GPX file in Notepad (or in another simple text editor), I bet there are no such fields at all, and that it is just your software adding those empty fields. Adding all this data to the log files would double or tripple the storage requirements, with absolutely no added value for the fitness tracking.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to trux

Right you are! It basically only has Lat/Long/Elevation, Time Stamp, and heart rate and cadence for every track point. Oh well!