Feedback Export GPS File

Charles Yang

I’m a Spartan user, difference with most users is I just use this watch as a GPS recorder.

Now, I use Movescount and Suunto App together. But only Movescount can export the GPX file from my watch. As all we knows, the Movescount will discontinued on 2020. export GPX file is only feature that I used Movescount not Suunto App.

I want change to Suunto App, because it’s new and easy to use.

Before you added this feature in the future, I must sync with Movescount first, and fully end the Movescount. Then sync with Suunto App. If not, the activity will NEVER sync with Movescount, that means I can’t export GPX file anymore.

Please add the feature in the Suunto App that I can export my GPX file directly.

Thanks.

Pierangelo

I agree.
It’s also important to be able to Import GPX or TCX files as a move (now it’s only possible to create a route)

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

why do you need a GPX over a FIT file?

Fenr1r

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos FIT is the common format for exercise-focussed records: navigation-focussed programs do not all import/open them natively by any means.

No one wants an extra conversion stage (with attendant risks) onto or off the watch … particularly as one ex-Suunto export/import process will already be mandatory for big-screen planners/reviewers.

Reasonably modern GPX files are not stripped-down FITs: each can contain multiple routes, tracks and POIs.

It’s an opportunity for Suunto to catch up with GPX standards and perhaps mitigate the fallout from MC closure rather than a weird niche provision.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@Fenr1r I dont get it, there is GPX for routes support in the app. (export)

Fenr1r

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos We might be running into terminology confusion here. I was answering (conceptually)

why do you need a GPX over a FIT file?

Otherwise, does the app export watch-recorded track GPXes as well as app-created routes? That seems to be one of the OP’s requirements.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@Fenr1r The app exports:

GPX:

Workouts as routes
Routes created in the app

FIT:

Workouts

Now I do understand that one would want a workout as GPX but GPX is a very very bad format for workouts. I can debate in detail over this, but mainly it misses lot of the data, pauses, etc, let aside that is TreeBased format (XML) that well, does not fit with activity data. For example take a tunnel. A tunnel can have HR data, altitude data but no GPS data. GPX files do not play well with that.

Opinion wise (personal) I would avoid GPX files for transferring any data between services, except if that is a route.

Fenr1r

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos I bow to your knowledge of workout/activity formats but I think the OP wants track records (i.e., the gpx containing a limited list of relative time-stamped sat-fixes [pref 3D] with header containing start time) so HR data and mid-tunnel altitude aren’t necessarily necessary. Using the watch in this way values location as currency, not biological monitoring. Pauses may be of less (if any) significance.

kukubau

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos

I just wanted to chime in as I am unable to export my last workout to GPX format. I’ve read all your comments and the pros vs. the cons. I do need the option to save my workouts/moves as *.GPX not just as *FIT.

In the three dots (…) dialog I have the

Edit
Save Route
Export as FIT file
Cancel

options available.

I was able to export the move as *.FIT, however, when I tried to import it in Movescount, I got this error message:

@2nd, you stated in other comments that choosing the Save option, one would be able to save it as a *.GPX file. After confirming the Save, by pressing the DONE button, I am shown another dialog to enter the route’s name, but by choosing to SAVE I did NOT get another dialog to browse to the save location and to save the file.

No other file was created on my iphone (iphone 7 ios 13.6), Suunto app v.1.40.0

isazi

@kukubau after you save the route, you can press “share” and download the GPX. At least it works on Android.

kukubau

@isazi

Thanks, but this option is missing on ios and looks like an ios bug.

DavorP

@kukubau
You can try with online tool, like:

https://www.alltrails.com/converter

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@kukubau I am sure it’s not missing :-d

Brad_Olwin

@kukubau It is not missing, use the share button to share a link to the activity, from the link you can download a gpx file.

kukubau

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos For me it’s missing. Below are consecutive screenshots, trying all options.

isazi

@kukubau that’s your activity though. Did you make a route out of it first?

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@kukubau create a route , name it

Go to your routes -> share -> copy link (has download for the GPX)

sartoric

@kukubau said in Feedback Export GPS File:

I just wanted to chime in as I am unable to export my last workout to GPX format.

@isazi @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
I guess his problem is this one

So definitely the wrong thread

kukubau

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Feedback Export GPS File:

@kukubau create a route , name it

Go to your routes -> share -> copy link (has download for the GPX)

You didn’t understand my issue. I want to export my previous activity to *.GPX format from within the Suunto app (like saving the *.FIT file) as I was able to do from Movescount due to the fact that is no SuuntoLink web based application and Movescount will be discontinued.

Having the *.FIT save option available, it is a matter of common sense, for the development team to offer the user the option to save the activity to a generally accepted format like *.GPX.

@isazi said in Feedback Export GPS File:

@kukubau that’s your activity though. Did you make a route out of it first?

It defies the purpose.

@sartoric said in Feedback Export GPS File:

@kukubau said in Feedback Export GPS File:

I just wanted to chime in as I am unable to export my last workout to GPX format.

@isazi @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
I guess his problem is this one

So definitely the wrong thread

@sartoric
Yes, that’s my problem and no this is not the wrong thread.

kukubau

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos

Why would I want to create a new route to copy an already performed activity to be able to save it as *.GPX?!? This is user unfriendly and very counter intuitive.
On the other hand, route creation has its purpose, I will not deny it.

Mff73

@kukubau
Once you are here

you should save your “My route” and once saved, you may have the option to Share this “My route” route.
And this sharing will give you a link to download GPX.
Workout --> Saveto Route --> Share saved route = GPX

sartoric

@kukubau said in Feedback Export GPS File:

@sartoric
Yes, that’s my problem and no this is not the wrong thread.

well … we could discuss about it

the OP asked for Feedback Export GPS File maybe a typo maybe not, but the OP never replied

and then things become FIT vs GPX for activity

and @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said

The app exports:

GPX:

Workouts as routes
Routes created in the app
FIT:

Workouts

In fact you cannot export GPX for an activity , only FIT files

kukubau

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
Thank you for your help.

I was a big Suunto fan and I’ve praised Suunto sport watches to everyone that was planning on buying a sport/smart watch. Sadly, this moment is the moment when I will leave Suunto for good and do my business elsewhere.

Suunto, you have become such a Disappointment.

kukubau

@sartoric said in Feedback Export GPS File:

In fact you cannot export GPX for an activity , only FIT files

Bummer! See my previous reply.

Bye Suunto, 5 Suunto watches later!

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@kukubau because of the GPX ? For realz? Like GPX are now obsolete files only used by routing mostly. Most important they lack the valuable info your watch records etc.

I don’t know man. If you are going to leave Suunto for a GPX export good luck.

Thanks