Track with Multiple Segments and Track Statistics

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LouisMarroquin

• August 13, 2018 20:39

I use Gaia frequently for multiday trips and like to make a single track to see the overall statistics, rather than individual day tracks. At the end of each day, I hit finish rather than pause so it completes the track and so I can close the app. The next day I open up the track and resume recording and it continues. A good addition to Gaia would be a feature, maybe another tab, that would allow a user to see the various legs of a trip and associated statistics for each leg with the same information as any track. If I send myself an exported track and open it in excel I am able to see a category called “trkseg/#id”, so it appears that Gaia is able to understand that when I hit finish on a track and then continue it they are separate legs.

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  archaicfrost

  • August 14, 2018 01:07
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  Friends with Louis and I'm a product owner, so taking a stab at a user story and behaviors here. No idea if this is a small enough story for how Gaia development works:

  As a Gaia user
  I want a way to track individual days as a part of a larger trip
  So that I can see statistics both for individual days and the overall multi-day trip as a whole.

  Given I am on a multi-day trip
  When I begin to record a multi day trip
  Then I can indicate that this is part one of a series of tracks that are related.
  When I record a following segment (i.e. day 2)
  Then I can indicate it is part of an existing trip.

  When I have recorded a segment of trip and I want to review the statistics
  Then I am able to select any individual segment and see those details
  Then I am able to select the overall trip and see the total combined details from all segments that make up that trip.

   

  Also I pulled up the GPX 1.1 schema to see and it looks like the attribute he suggested is used to tell if GPS signal drops so I don't think that can be used for this purpose. I didn't see any default attributes that would work so might need to create a custom element in the extensions section to accomplish this. Maybe just a trip ID and sequence number could be enough.

  Thanks,
  Ed

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  Nathan

  • August 16, 2018 17:13

  @LouisMarroquin & @archaicfrost
  Thanks for posting and I see how a trip id or track leg tag would benefit multi-day track recordings. Right now, a feature as streamlined as that is not available, but it is possible to file all your tracks into a folder in order to view the cumulative stats for the trip on gaiagps.com.
  
  Check out this article to learn how to manage folders on the web: https://help.gaiagps.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003640648-Managing-Folders-on-gaiagps-com

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  walkerj57

  • November 02, 2018 22:23

  I too would like to see this feature set. I used GaiaGPS to log my entire 800 km Camino Santiago pilgrimage. 

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  anna

  • August 11, 2023 15:44

  Is this a feature that could be implemented in the future? It would dramatically improve the usefulness of Gaia to me (and clearly many others). It's currently the main drawback of the app in my opinion. 

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