Navigation and Climb guidance

Ecki D.

@sorinus I do create most of my gpx tracks with komoot and adding those to the suunto app they work for navigation but not so good for climb guidance.
I found when re-editing a gpx track coming from somewhere else climb guidance works much better.
Did you add your waypoints in the suunto app or somewhere else?

sorinus

@Ecki-D. I added my waypoints in the suunto app.

Audaxjoe

Sunnto only really counts decent climbs as a climb, the rest it grades as uphill.

I find Suunto much better than Garmin or Wahoo, but it is down to personal preference.

If Suunto tell me a climb is coming I know it is a climb!

Wahoo gives nearly any slope climb status and Garmin seems to be in the middle.

Sometimes the Wahoo also breaks one coin into several sections. I do not find the Suunto doing this but it does often not count climbs that are short.

I rode across Spain a couple of weeks ago, Atlantic to the Mediterranean, Id always check the Suunto climbs to get a good idea of the terrain for the day. I thought it was excellent.

But it certainly only marks climbs that you will most definitely notice! I use the Vertical.

Audaxjoe

@sorinus “in line with reality” I guess that depends on your reality.

One person’s mountain is another person’s hill!

For me I like the conservative nature of the Suunto climbs guidance.

I have a wahoo also. That is just daft. I have it set to med/hard climbs only and most are just slops

People with Garmin seem in the middle.

On some routes last year when riding with friends at the start of the day the Suunto would show one climb, Garmin maybe 15 and the Wahoo about 30

I wouldn’t say any are wrong, just a different approach.

sorinus

@Audaxjoe said in Navigation and Climb guidance:

@sorinus “in line with reality” I guess that depends on your reality.

One person’s mountain is another person’s hill!

That’s now how my Suunto works. I tested it before the race with a track created by myself in Suunto app on the hills around my city, and it did identify most if not all climbs/uphills. The thing is in the race track there were much steeper climbs/uphills compared with the ones in my area but it didn’t identify those.

So I guess is what the other poster said, it may be a problem with imported GPX tracks vs suunto app created tracks. If so, is there a service where I can upload a 3rd part GPX and export it again and this time with proper Suunto climbs guidance?

2b2bff

@sorinus unlike Garmin, Suunto takes the elevation information embedded in the GPX and does not recalculate it with the maps data Suunto has. That’s very unfortunate, leading to no elevation profile at all, if not included in the GPX file - something I complained before.

Only chance is to import the GPX in some other tool and export it from there with correct elevation data. However, I haven’t done this, yet.

Audaxjoe

@sorinus GPX editor. You can import, add the elevation then export again to Suunto. Lots of others as well.