I have a Garmin Edge Explore and it is working fine but I realized that the elevation gain in all of my activities is overestimated by a lot in garmin connect. It is quite fine on the device itself but once the automatic elevation correction functionality is applied the data is completely messed up. I understand this functionality is applied because my Garmin device does not have a barometric altitude sensor.
I think what I am experiencing is a similar issue to: https://forums.garmin.com/apps-software/mobile-apps-web/f/garmin-connect-web/169928/elevation-gain-loss-in-courses-largely-overestimated#pifragment-455=3
As a workaround I am now always disabling the automatic elevation correction manuall for all the activities but that is rather tedious and it cannot be disabled alltogether.
In conclusion I would like to see the following:
- Introduce a global setting that allows to enable/disable elevation correction by default
- Fix the elevation correction. It does work just fine on other portals. If I take the exported GPX file and import it on other portals the elevation gain is reliably estimated! Please Garmin, add a filter to your elevation estimation!
Would be interested to know what workarounds other users with devices that do not have barometric altitude measurements use.