SERIOUSLY LORD FETCH - SORT IT OUT!

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Dvorak 23 Mar 7:28pm, 23 Mar 2024 27,635 posts	0 Dvorak Anybody have wayward elevation figures today? (Probably not down to Fetch, but the data source). I'm just back from a bike ride, starting and finishing at my house. Which apparently sunk 20m in the time I was away. Other bits also read decidedly lower, 30m at one point. Even odder perhaps, as much was an out and back, the back seems ok-ish (for a bit), whilst the out was decidedly wonky donkey. (parkrun earlier was fine, and the Garmin chart for the ride looks ok.)
chunkywizard 23 Mar 8:55pm, 23 Mar 2024 17,094 posts	0 chunkywizard Does your watch have a pressure sensor in it? If so, it gives you the elevation data and could indicate the port is clogged. If not then the data is auto-magically calculated and then I don’t know what could be wrong!
Dvorak 23 Mar 9:10pm, 23 Mar 2024 27,640 posts	0 Dvorak Nothing as fancy as barometric. (Which quite often seems wonky itself.)
minardi 23 Mar 9:59pm, 23 Mar 2024 10,581 posts	0 minardi More often than not my route shows as having a hill right at the start of my run even though I live in flattest Lincolnshire.
ThorntonRunner 23 Mar 10:33pm, 23 Mar 2024 7,363 posts	0 ThorntonRunner Following on from minardi's point - one of my runs starts and finishes on a flat path next to a deep quarry - I always get my biggest hill on that section, which is just down to the granularity of the elevation data - the nearest elevation data point is in the quarry!
um 24 Mar 8:39am, 24 Mar 2024 8,295 posts	0 um For info on elevation, with apologoes if you ll know all of thsi already. You have a choice of elevaton sources, your watch or the big server in the sky, see Training > Your Log, and clicking the Settings button. Within the settings you can untick 'Use Watch Elevation'. There's also a couple of Fetch blogs on elevations :- Feb 21 fetcheveryone.com/blog/3/2021/2#blog419566 Mar 21 fetcheveryone.com/blog/3/2021/3/421624
um 24 Mar 8:42am, 24 Mar 2024 8,296 posts	0 um And as a recurring thought, isn't this the most insulting thread name ever? Is there any similar group thought to try and get it changed to something a bit better? Even if it's not a direct line to Fetch?
ThorntonRunner 24 Mar 8:43am, 24 Mar 2024 7,364 posts	0 ThorntonRunner Yep - I've tried both: watch is very inconsistent. Big server in the sky is much better but has the (understandable) odd glitch such as described above. I wonder whether eventually it will be effective to switch to getting elevation from lidar data which has a 1 metre granularity
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) 24 Mar 8:48am, 24 Mar 2024 41,327 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) I would love to see the title changed, even if it's just to have caps removed, I don't know if the thread owner is still on Fetch though 🤔
Diogenes 24 Mar 8:51am, 24 Mar 2024 85,165 posts	0 Diogenes About This Thread Maintained by SPKoF Fetch says: I ignore this thread. If you've got a bug to report or a favour to ask, please use the feedback link at the top of every page.