Bug: Too early off segment

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Andreas Lauinger

• November 04, 2021 08:53

I am happy with the Karoo GPS accuracy. However, some segments are defined fairly inaccurate on Strava.

Whenever I ride such a segment, Karoo says "Off Segment" at some point and deactivates the Live Popup. However, after the ride, the segment is always recognized in Strava, so I can't be too far off.

So my thinking is to just increase the tolerance in the calculation where it decides that we are no longer on the segment.

This is super annoying if you want to do a good effort on a climb and suddenly the data disappears.

Thank you for considering.

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  Joen Tolgraven

  • November 06, 2021 14:54

  Only experienced this once, but good idea.

  Btw it's quite weird Strava doesn't include functionality to somehow fix wildly inaccurate, popular segments.
  I've had to make loads of my own, basically duplicate, segments just to get correct elevation data etc.

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  Roland

  • November 07, 2021 00:34

  After only using my new device on a few rides the "Off Segment" has popped up twice. Each segment is one I've done dozens of times in the past with another brand of GPS device and have never had any issues. Strava still records them as Andreas mentioned so the tolerance idea seems like an excellent solution. 

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  Andreas Lauinger

  • November 07, 2021 14:30

  Joen, exactly my thinking - very annoying that these old segments can't be fixed. Now they even have proper mapping on the site so it would be possible to just map the segment to the road instead of using the actual GPS data. Honestly though, I don't even know what the Strava Devs are actually doing all day. Such a big company with lots of income and basically no real changes in quite some time. But lets not go there because I believe this problem here should be an easy fix.

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