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Edit Activity Map

Former Member over 10 years ago

Hi,

Just bought a Forerunner 620 after having been away from Garmin products for many years. I'm reserving judgement for the time being until I've gotten used to it but in the short term I had a question. Setting GPS accuracy issues aside, I do, like I'm sure many do run in a big city near the odd skyscraper. I accept this might cause glitches by way of simple physics.

What I am totally missing is how I correct a clearly bogus map after that fact. The vast majority of it is correct apart from the last 5 minutes where I bounce all over the place achieving a maximum speed of 85 km/h. I will go running around this locale often.

Other products (even free ad supported smartphone applications) have allowed me to delete points. Is this possible in Garmin Connect on the web? If not, why not and how does that sort of request get on a product roadmap?

I'm still assuming I'm just being dense and missing the option,

Cheers,
Max

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0 travis.vitek over 10 years ago

You cannot edit most of the data (position, time, lap, heart rate, cadence, ...) from within Garmin Connect.

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

Ok, what's the best way to feed this back as a feature request?

There are some really noddy apps that allow this kind of correction. I've done an awful lot of work with time series data and corrections in context when you have a start, rate of measurement or even a variable rate with a time reference makes this not an impossible problem to solve.

It seems the best you can hope for is:

Create a course from the activity data
Edit the course to be accurate
In full edit mode assign the course to the activity

Therefore adjusting at least some of the metrics and the overall distance.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

That's wrong and lazy from Garmin team. So this topic is from jul 23, 2014 and today is jan4, 2020 and still you can not edit the activity map but I can pay 600pounds for a watch. I don't get it? From some reasons sometimes I don't check visually my watch and from my finger click/push i think that I started the activity but is not so at the end I know or I can calculate the whole data but I can not edit the map. How is possible?

Wake up garmin or change something in your team philosophy/attitude in order to improve some small details.

+1 trux over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

You can export the respective activity to a number of file formats that you can easily edit, then reimport back corrected, and delete the original wrong activity.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to trux

"You can export the respective activity to a number of file formats that you can easily edit, then reimport back corrected, and delete the original wrong activity"

What? Are you for real?

This is not just a simple stand alone app is a product, in my case a watch, that comes with Garmin connect where I can not edit the activity map but you want me to export edit and reinport and then delete?

After so many years where the request is there from many like me, you come with this joke conclusion?

0 trux over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

You asked for a solution, I offered one. Personally, I find it more than sufficient for the ocassional need, but if you don't like it, just ignore the advice and keep your wrong results.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to trux

I didn't ask for any solution. I've suggested:

Wake up garmin or change something in your team philosophy/attitude in order to improve some small details.

0 trux over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

Then you are barking up the wrong tree. This is a user forum, you won't meet any Garmin employees here, except of some ocassional announcements.

0 2188963 over 5 years ago in reply to trux

Hey how can I edit the map? With which tool? My battery died about 10km before getting back. I would like to add it to the activity.
Thx!

0 trux over 5 years ago in reply to 2188963

As I wrote above, you can export the activity to a file of your choice, edit it to remove or add points, or other data, and then uploading it to Garmin Connect again. If you prefere entering the coordinates manually, you can export it for example in a CSV or Excel format. You can also exporti it in Gogle Earth format (KLM), and edit the route in Google Earth. There are also diverse 3rd party applications for editing routes in KLM, CSV, Excel, FIT, or in other formats.