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Displaying Elevation Data

Former Member over 13 years ago

The elevation data displayed in Garmin Connect is, in my humble opinion, not currently displayed in the most useful way.

Let me first describe what currently happens. Elevation data is presented with the positive elevation range far too large for the given data. To compound matters the same excessive elevation range is presented for both positive and negative elevations concurrently, even though most people will never ever experience negative elevations (below sea level), and even if there are no negative elevations recorded in the data. The net result of all of this is the vertical squashing of the presented elevation data. One has to manually zoom to re-scale the elevation range to only display the data, and not the empty space too.

Let me now suggest what I believe to be a rational solution. Prior to displaying/presenting the elevation data, the maximum and minimum elevations recorded in the data should be obtained (by searching through the data if necessary). The elevation range presented should be from the minimum elevation recorded to the maximum elevation recorded, no more, no less. Simple :).

0 Mark_Lee over 13 years ago

no more, no less. Simple :).

I agree, it is pretty obvious this is how it should be done.
I have no idea why this isn't standard, and why they haven't made the code changes for this to happen.

To make things worse, I no longer have the option to manually zoom in. So my last run ranged between 2 and 26m but is [only] displayed between +/- 100m.

0 Former Member over 13 years ago

I totally agree that the Elevation graphic must presents its actual data conform to the info related to the course. In this case we get immediately a graphic that give us an idea of the altitude, and not a flat line ... ;)

And extra the possibility to zoom-in, -out to have more details of the track.

I hope this will be available (again) soon.

0 Former Member over 13 years ago

Elevation Data Squashing

I agree with all the posts above. Not only would it make sense to do this for the elevation, but for the other pieces of data, also - speed/pace, HR, cadence. The data display on the Player tab does a much better job of showing detail, so why isn't the detail page the same? If there's a way to do this for these and I'm missing it, someone let me know.

0 Former Member over 13 years ago

I have two questions and hopefully someone will know the answers (and write it :-))

1. Can I choose to disable elevation correction for all activities, even the ones not yet uploaded? Now i can switch it manually which is pretty annoying (910XT)

2. The elevation correction should be super mega hyper correct since it uses data from NASA blah blah. But sometimes there are total nonsenses. So my question is: Does play a role which country I am in? I gues in USA data will be perfect but in the Czech Republic probably not. Or should it be everywhere the same (accuracy)?