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Farron
over 2 years ago

Hello,

a question from the german forum:

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Good day

I was in the jungle in the Amazon for about three weeks to support a research. During this time I had the expedition mode running, about 19 days. Now I am back home and want to be able to evaluate the individual points, resp. read out the coordinates. While the tour was running, I could select and check each point on the watch. Now I can but neither on the clock, nor in the app, nor online.

That must be possible somehow. Does anyone know how to do this?
The only thing it still shows me is 82.83km and the duration of 415h 40min.

Thank you and kind regards

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Is there really no possibility ?

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  • 9 months ago in reply to trux +3 verified

    Hello

    I have not tested this with an Expedition activity. But have you tried importing the Activity to BaseCamp on a computer. This is an older program. But when a track file is loaded, you can…

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  • 0 9 months ago

    I recently posed a similar question to Garmin support.  They offered this suggestion for creating a GPX file from an Expedition track for import into a program such as GAIA. 

    "In Garmin Connect Web, while viewing the expedition activity, you should see a gear icon in the upper right, if you click on that gear you can export to GPX for GAIA."

    In this plot from GAIA, the light orange track is the imported Expedition file.  15-minute sampling rate.  The dark orange track was recorded using GAIA on my iPhone.

  • 0 9 months ago in reply to 2828071

    And this shows creating the GPX file from the Connect web page.

  • 0 9 months ago in reply to 2828071

    One last point to clarify.  Per Garmin support, when you use Expedition Mode->Add Point, the added points data is lost when the data is transferred to Connect.  The recorded track is saved to Connect. But not the added points. 

  • 0 9 months ago in reply to 2828071

    Not sure how "Add Point" in the Expedition mode works, but if it is the same as the "Save Location" function, then those are not saved in the activity file, regardless whether you use Expedition mode, or any standard GPS activity. Locations are being saved in a separate file, and if you want to see them, you either have to use the watch self, or you can view them more comfortably with the Garmin Explore app. Saved Locations are not synced to Garmin Connect, so you won't find them there.

    So if Add Point des not work for you, use the function Save Location (in the GPS menu).

  • 0 9 months ago in reply to trux

    I would agree that data created with "Save Location" does show up in the Explore map.  But not data created with the Expedition option "Add Point".

    "Add Point" which is available within Expedition appears to be a different function or implementation than "Save Location".  If I try to do a "Save Location" operation from within Expedition, I get a message saying "GPS is off."  

  • 0 9 months ago in reply to 2828071

    Yes, you are right, I have just tested it. Unfortunately, using the function Save Location is not possible even when you do it concurrently with the Set Point function that does enable the GPS. And using Pause/Resume Later does not help either.

    So far, the ony possibility that I see for distinguishing the manually saved points from the automatically stored track points, is checking their time stamp. The automated points are stored each 60 minutes (by default, but it is configurable). If you click on a point in GC, and see a time stamp not done at the periodical interval, then it is a manually added point.

    Apart of it, I recommend suggesting the enabling of the Save Location, or tagging of the manually added points to Garmin at Share Ideas | Garmin

  • +1 9 months ago in reply to trux

    Hello

    I have not tested this with an Expedition activity. But have you tried importing the Activity to BaseCamp on a computer. This is an older program. But when a track file is loaded, you can double click it. This will give a window with a list of all track points, including location data and time stamp. 

    BaseCamp Software

    If you choose to try this: 

    1. Connect your watch with the computer
    2. Install BaseCamp
    3. Launch the software
    4. The watch will be detected, and its contents listed in the Library on the left
    5. Locate the Activity
    6. Double click on the Track listed on the left column
    7. This should take you to the track and open a window with the track log
  • 0 9 months ago in reply to Garmin-Laurie

    Thanks much for the suggestion to try BaseCamp and for the step-by-step instructions.  That does allow me to view a list of individual data points from the Expedition recording. 

  • 0 7 months ago

    Hi ,

    How accurate did you find your watch in the Amazon? Were you in the jungle proper or on a more open river/tributary? What device do you use?

    I am planning an expedition and was planning to track it with my watch (expedition mode), but wasn’t expecting it to be very accurate when in the jungle. 

    Thanks!

    Laurie