Different distance when saving an activity as a route

[tomasllorens]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos thanks for your help, I’m sure it will be very useful. I hope you get well soon both if it’s COVID or not!
I usually create a route from a workout, then I get the GPX file and sometimes I have to adjust it in order to have a “clean” GPX file, or if I have to add or cut the track at some point (I use BaseCamp for that). Once I have the final track we usually upload it to Wikiloc or directly share the GPX file to the participants.

However, the problem is that when I have the final file I analyze it in order to give the participants the detailed km/uphill between food stations/finish line. This is where we have found sometimes big differences and we never know how to solve it and have the real distance/uphill!

I think I answered the 3 questions you asked.
Thanks again for your help!

[tomasllorens]

Hello @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos, I hope that you are ok from COVID, if you had it. I answered your 3 questions, and you told me that there was a solution for my problem (differences in the km that I have in the tracks and the real ones that the runners get when running our races).
Thanks for your help.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@tomasllorens Hey sorry I missed this.

So this is what I suggest.

1. Record the route with the watch.
2. Create a route from the workout via exporting the GPX file.
3. Upload it to some service and verify the difference.

Now depending on how much the difference is I would just leave it as it is. Most GNSS watches will show pretty much that distance.

Now this is a very opinionated wording. This distance issue has todo with how much GPS was lost / bad etc.

Since your runners are going to follow the GNSS distance pretty much I d go with what the GPX says. Be that be 2km less.

[tomasllorens]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Thanks!
Any special software you would recommend to work with GPX tracks? (Check distances, cut and merge, etc…). I usually work with BaseCamp.

[Fenr1r]

@tomasllorens said in Different distance when saving an activity as a route:

cut and merge

For that, particularly, you might give Xpedition2 a go. It’s a bit dated in many other ways but quite good for mucking around with multiple routes, tracks, etc., simultaneously.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@tomasllorens on OSX I use ADZE. With this I have done modifications to routes etc. I trust this

[tomasllorens]

Thank you very much @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos for your comments and suggestion on ADZE, looks like a great tool.

[tomasllorens]

Thanks @Fenr1r for your suggestion on Xpedition I didn’t know about this website and it looks great!

[Brad_Olwin]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Different distance when saving an activity as a route:

@tomasllorens on OSX I use ADZE. With this I have done modifications to routes etc. I trust this

If you add waypoints with ADZE and import into SA are the waypoints and names retained? If so, I am likely going to purchase.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@Brad_Olwin no it doesnt

[Brad_Olwin]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Well that sucks, would love to have a good site that does this…