Route Elevation = up + down? Or what?

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Ola Strandberg

• May 10, 2021 13:11

Can someone explain how the route elevation is calculated? It seems almost like it is adding ascent + descent up on most routes, but it's only over by 20% or so on others (comparing to Komoot in this case). Post ride, there are certainly some discrepancies between Garmin, Komoot and Strava, but not by much. I've seen some older posts about this, but no response.

The number of meters/feet to be climbed is a pretty significant number for us cyclists, no? If I have to choose a single metric regarding altitude, it would be altitude climbed. A combination between climbed and descended is utterly useless.

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  Akhil

  • May 13, 2021 15:02

  Hey Ola,

  We are aware of the elevation figures do not match when routes are imported on it. We are working on optimizing the source from which the dashboard pulls the elevation details from. We expect this to be improved soon :)

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  Andi Djee.

  • May 15, 2021 00:58

  @Akill: obviously it’s still this one... from a couple of month ago...

  https://support.hammerhead.io/hc/en-us/community/posts/1500000049181-Elevation-clash-of-Dashboard-vs-K2-vs-Komoot-OA-Or-simply-misleading-useless-information-of-Dashboard-K2-sensor-

  @Ola: Search function works in this forum... ;)
  Happy days... :)

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  Stephen Black

  • October 21, 2023 02:15

  This post is 2-years old and the same problem continues to exist. HH has done ZERO to fix this. So done with this garbage unit whose only redeeming quality is a pretty screen.

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  lee

  • October 25, 2023 12:06

  This is quite true @Stephen - I've owned a k2 for 2yr this Nov I think and theirs probs that HAVEN'T been rectified and its been out for at least 3yrs..it's about time Hammerhead sort this - the fact its a development piece of software doesn't cut it now - it's beyond rediculous like height for god's sake, it's a GPS unit, my phone isn't a cycling related product but it can give me a better figure than Hammerhead can or be that can't produce a unit to. Even my phone I CAN TYPE IN A PLACE and NAVIGATE TO IT...for god's sake, pull ya finger out Hammerhead it's beyond pathetic

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