Why does the Maps show a straight line back to the starting point in Pause?

Olaf Gottschalk

I just noticed something rather strange.

When pausing an activity and choosing to view the map in the pause menu, the red trace showing your route so far is a closed loop with a straight red line going directly back to the starting point…

Does anyone know why? And what this is supposed to indicate?

…or… did I find a bug?

zhang965

Because you are in a building, the gps signal is lost, so the map shows wrong information.

If you are outside of building and pause it, it probably not show such line.

mikekoski490

@Olaf-Gottschalk Exactly as it would be in Garmin, Polar, Coros, if you pause an activity but keep moving, the watch isnt recieving any GPS or other information. There could be a reason people want to do this, and/or people could have paused to tie a shoe and forget to restart it, and then when they realize they need to resume, OR dont realize until the end and just hit finish, it will calculate a straight line + distance between the 2 points (pause and resume/end), essentially filling in the gap.

I believe this is preferred over showing no data or a gap (which they used to do), and helps if you did indeed make a mistake and want to backtrack or navigate?

Or maybe in your case when paused you had back to start engaged.

Tieutieu

@Olaf-Gottschalk on the picture you’ve taken are you inside à building ? Seems that you don’t have gps signal so it is related => Having no signal the Watch then drag a line from last known point to start point until you get signal again

Olaf Gottschalk

@Tieutieu your answer seems right. But… Why??

I paused the activity so no matter if I have GPS or not, what does the line back mean?!

I did not take that route nor am I interested in a line to the start. What’s the real thinking behind a line being drawn?

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@Olaf-Gottschalk its connecting the last known position to your current position as typicall happens to all GPS tracks services etc.

Olaf Gottschalk

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos yes but in that context, in a building without GPS, the “current location” is where?
This is a different statement than others said that it would connect the last known location back to the start for whatever reason…
At least to me it does not look deliberate, more like a glitch.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@Olaf-Gottschalk because it got GPS inside the building most probably for a second and so on.

Hey Mr. @zhang965 I think you are a kind of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, sometimes you are kind and sometimes you are so rude but deep down you love Suunto

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

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