Hi - I went out for a run today and of course the watch reported the distance based on GPS.
I prefer to use the distance that google maps reports when the course is drawn out there. Is there an adjustment I can make that scales/adjusts the GPS distance used by the watch so it reports the google maps distance? Something like the scaling factor in Stryd, for example?
Thanks!
‘Calibrating’ GPS around a running track is likely to leave you disappointed for a number of reasons. If you want to check your GPS distance then best to check against a known distance. Accurately measure…
In any case, the influence from slopes is usually overestimated.
A 1% slope will cause an error of 0.005%.
A 5% slope will cause an error of 0.12%.
A 10% slope will cause an error of 0.5%
It will usually…
And since we can, or should if we are being realistic, expect GPS errors to occur we should not be surprised when they do.
Sadly, some people still expect a degree of precision and accuracy from a wrist…
Have not seen this thread before, but it's a funny idea to use Google maps! Here in the woods I often meet people who are lost although they have a smartphone. Google or Apple maps have almost none of the trails and if they have, they are often incorrect.
OSM are very good here but even there the course is different from a drawn course (cutting corners...) - nevertheless this mostly fits quite well to the data of my F5+, e.g. yesterday in the woods 10,02km vs. 10,1km on OSM and I definitely cut some corners.
As we have so many trails, its easy to draw a track which is a bit different from my run, resulting in different distances and the assumption that the GPS is wrong
