Export POIs from Suunto 9

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@djibarian go to the map. Tap on the peak -> create POI -> name etc -> press add to watch.

Make sure you are on version 4.33.x (x is any number)

(do the above outside the route creation)

djibarian

@sartoric I’m talking about both trackpoints and waypoints (or POIs)

djibarian

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Export POIs from Suunto 9:

@djibarian go to the map. Tap on the peak -> create POI -> name etc -> press add to watch.

Make sure you are on version 4.33.x (x is any number)

(do the above outside the route creation)

cool, I see is a new feature in the android beta

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@djibarian at the same map you should be able to see also the pois you created with the watch.

The same applies when you are using the route planner. So the pois are marked and you can create a waypoint at a route

djibarian

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Export POIs from Suunto 9:

@djibarian at the same map you should be able to see also the pois you created with the watch.

The same applies when you are using the route planner. So the pois are marked and you can create a waypoint at a route

I see you see the POIs in the route planner, but still you have to create the waypoints manually.

Anyway that’s not a problem. The only problem I see now is to be able to export the POIs, whether all of them together, or being able to select some of them in the POIs tab, and export them as GPX.

Do you think is feasible to expect that option to be in a next release?

margusl

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Export POIs from Suunto 9:

Unfortunately and coming back to some previous comment afaik this was never possible with movescount etc.

I guess it’s technically correct. Just that bluntly copy-pasting data of few hundred POIs from Movescount.com in batches of 10, formatting as CSV and converting that list into GPX of POIs for using with other devices and mapping tools takes more determination than skill and something like 5 to 15 minutes from average user. That part of Movescount is also quite scraper-friendly.

Fenr1r

@margusl On the third hand, bulk export can be built-in. The ViewRanger app will export all visible (or total saved) tracks, routes (with named WPs) and POIs from the planning/review screen to a single GPX file.

(Of course, VR doesn’t do much with health metrics. Or talk directly to anything other than its companion WearOS app.)

Still a worthwhile standard to target, though. Unless Suunto wants to get away from GPX entirely ASAP. Which might be tricky as FITs don’t appear to be anything like as common as a route import format.

pavel.samokha

Can’t promise on the behalf of the company, but we’ll probably add POIs import/export in the future

isazi

Is there already a feature request? If not, let’s create one and vote. I honestly don’t use POIs, but also until 12 months ago was not using routes on the watch either. I am still a paper map fan! Anyway, I would vote for the possibility to export/import POIs from/to the app.

Fenr1r

@isazi said in Export POIs from Suunto 9:

I honestly don’t use POIs … I am still a paper map fan!

Join us on the Dark Side!

But bring your map because we still need those. And a headtorch because … dark.

kk1n76

I find suunto poi an excellent feature, even when navigating in city. I hardly use or nearly never use Google maps nowadays. I just create poi using suunto app and then sync to watch and then navigate to poi. Always work like charm!

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@djibarian for sure I am not the one to decide or tell when and how.

What I can do, is present to the Suunto app Product Owner the feature request of exporting the POIS based on the demand here, he can then prioritize the request and make it so that it gets out for both Android +iOS + Backend systems.

Even if the work would be “small” (at least how I see it) that doesn’t mean it comes first / quick .

So please people do a feature request and vote

isazi

Created a request in the appropriate section.

glaucidium.passerinum

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos any news ?

djibarian

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Export POIs from Suunto 9:

Yes that feature is bound to come

…more than three years ago. The news are Apple Watch Ultra. Sorry for being sarcastic, but this is not the way customers are treated.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@djibarian excuse me ?

glaucidium.passerinum

For what it’s worth, I was able to extract the POIs using an app dump as explained here :

Make sure Suunto app has storage permission.

Go to settings and tap many times the version number. Logging will start.

Go to home , pull to refresh the feed

Wait a bit

Go again to settings tap many times the version it will stop logging

On your Android internal storage there will be a folder called stt.

Then we can use R (or another SQLite client) to connect to the produced database in android > data > com.stt.android.suunto > files > stt-dump > amer_app.db and use the pois table.

Far from being easy…

Matthieu Fou

@glaucidium-passerinum Sorry for digging up an old post

Have you (or anyone else) tried to “INSERT INTO” (playing with SQL) data into the “pois” table ? Do you think that could be a means to import POIs into the application ?

… or would that break something ?

Mff73

@Matthieu-Fou
It was working in the past (I did it), no checked with current database structure.

https://forum.suunto.com/post/78885

Edit : I just checked and POIs have a key, I don’t remember if it was the case in the past.