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Export to TCX - Where's the Elevation Data?

Former Member over 10 years ago

Hi,

I use a Garmin 310xt during my running. I usually upload my data to the Garmin Connect site. I also like to have the data locally on my laptop, so I export it as a .tcx and import it into Garmin Training Center.

Up until 3/7/2015, elevation data was exported as part of the .tcx file. Since then, whenever I export, there is no elevation data. I can see the elevation data on the Garmin Connect site, but it's not exported to the .tcx and not imported into my Garmin Connect.

Anyone have any idea why?

0 wheyen over 10 years ago

Another workaround: when you're working with Basecamp (Desktop version), you can also import the FIT files into Basecamp and export them as GPX or TCX with all information. But Garmin should fix Connect, so that you don't need these workarounds.

0 WAKIMT over 10 years ago

How do you export an activity in the "original format?" I see three options: TCX, GPX and Google Earth.

0 wheyen over 10 years ago

On Garmin Connect, choose the activity, click on the right upper corn the icon * (more...) and choose "Eport Original"

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

Is there any way to export all activity records, as I am changing back to Fitbit and would like to import the Garmin data?

Sue C

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

It doesn't work. The Export Original yields a ZIP file containing a binary FIT file. So much for that... until someone gets a FIT to CSV file converter.

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

Hi All. I think I found a solution (a workaround, actually)

1. from connect.gamin.com site : "Export Original" (under the right upper icon) and you'll get a zip file
2. unzip it and you'll get the original fit file
3. use JaVaWa RTWTool (http://www.javawa.nl/rtwtool_en.html) to convert the fit file into a gpx file.

That new gpx file has all the data from the original fit (for instance, if you import it to Garmin BaseCamp, you'll get all the data collected by your very Garmin device + sensors: cadence, HR, temperature, elevation, etc.)

0 HKEYHKEY over 9 years ago

Elevation data is back!

Hi guys,

I just noticed that the elevation data is back in the exported TCX files! The speed data is still missing though (I now have to calculate it by averaging speed over a few points around the time point of interest), but at least the "Altitude" field is back - and it looks so much better than whatever you get from http://fit2tcx.runalyze.de/, which does not use Garmin's correction for altitude.

I don't know when Garmin ended up fixing the bug (apparently no later than last week): I had not looked at it for a few weeks. So I guess they fixed it some time in July.

0 ksi1234 over 9 years ago

Speed Tag

Hi

guy, thanks for the elevation tag back in the gpx file. But where is the speed tag gone? During the import in my osx software "Trailrunner" the is no speed tag seen. Why? Ok the speed is only missing in the exported GPX file.
During the import of the tcx File the speed will be computed and the altitude is also there.

Could you please fix it?

Kai

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

Still no speed data

I am a new user, with a 520 and the speed sensor. We are doing aerodynamic testing, and I want to use the data recorded in Garmin connect.

Export to .tcx does not contain speed sensor data. Exporting as .fit and then using an on-line converter to .tcx shows the speed data is there.

Am I to understand that this is a bug that has remained unsolved in 8 months?

Tom

UPDATE: Turns out that once you connect the speed sensor, the distance information shown in the .tcx file is not GPS based but rather speed sensor based. So one can calculate sensor based speed. I still think that the absence of sensor data in the .tcx file is a bug, but at least this is a workaround.