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Orienteering as activity type

Hi there,
Some (long) time ago, I have requested to have a new activity type of "Orienteering". This make sense because even though the activity is close to trail running, it is definitely not the same, since most of the time, one does not follow paths or trails...
Back then I have put my request via support. And I never received any receipt or answer. I hope this Forum is the right place to put such requests.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Charles Lehmann

0 SUSSAMB over 11 years ago

As an orienteer I can't imagine any activity giving a 'correct' orienteering route as each runner has his own methods. In any case Basecamp can only use routeable information in the maps, and a map that included every possible orienteering route doesn't exist, nor could I imagine one ever doing so.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

I presume this request is about activities on Garmin Connect, nothing to do with Basecamp or routing.

I agree, it would be nice to have orienteering as an option. As well as "hill running", which is quite different "trail running".

There have been a few requests in this forum for more activity types before, I'm not sure if Garmin have added any of them. Or an option for adding custom types yourself.

0 SUSSAMB over 11 years ago

Oops you may be correct, I just thought this was another post in the wrong place given what the OP said :)

0 Dugiflopper over 11 years ago

The OP(original poster) does need to clarify what he's asking for. Is it for changes to the Garmin Connect Site? Adding new forums to this site? or what?

The Garmin Connect Site has always been about the Garmin "fitness" devices. And for whatever reasons, Garmin has ONLY chosen to add forums here for their 'fitness" devices, and a few for "Software" and "developers". They have reliably added new forums for their new "fitness" products, so they do pay attention to that, but why they ignore their other markets, I don't know.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

I created an account just to ask for this. I was hoping it would be possible in Garmin Connect to change an activity from example running to orienteering. It would make it much easier to keep track of median paces. Now the problem is when keeping track of activities you have to label orienteering as "trail running" or something else to keep it away from making your running stats worse.