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henteaser
Posted: 28 Apr 12


Posts: 7
Location: Finland
When I import a file that I exported from runkeeper it puts all the data as one lap, so that I can't see the splits.

Does anyone know why this happens?
dirk
Posted: 02 May 12


Posts: 177
Location: Oss, Netherlands
Probably there isn't any lapdata in the gpx file. If you upload or post a link to the gpx file then i'll take a look inside the file and see what happens.

regards
Dirk
henteaser
Posted: 13 May 12


Posts: 7
Location: Finland
I don't know how to attach a file to this post so here's the link to one of the gpx files.

http://www.mediafire.com/?8u8oaiegjpq6h6e

It is exported from Runkeeper so the problem could be at their side. But laps are displayed within the runkeeper site, and I think that also sports-tracker displays laps when this file is imported to its site.
dirk
Posted: 15 May 12


Posts: 177
Location: Oss, Netherlands
Your .gpx file contains only 1 trekseg element. So there aren't more laps.
You downloaded the gpx from runkeeper. I imported an activity with 2 laps from garmin training center to runkeeper (both as .tcx and .gpx) and afterwards exported that activity from runkeeper. Runkeeper doesn't export lap info in their gpx or kml files. But in runkeeper i didn't see the original lap info at all. So maybe runkeeper deletes the lap info at import.

Runkeeper suggests there are laps/splits at every km or mile (depending on your settings), but that aren't the real laps in my case.

So if you want to have laps, you have to do an enhancement request to runkeeper. In which you ask to download either the original lap info or the virtual lap info (eg. every km or mile)
dvictori
Posted: 19 May 12


Posts: 2
The same thing happens importing Google MyTracks gpx file. The gpx file does not have trkseg elements but at the beginning of the file there are lap descriptions. Isn't there a way for runningfree to use this information? Because using MyTracks is, as far as I know, the way to use the site with android phones...

I've put a MyTrack gpx file in the following link in case someone wants to take a look at it

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19035357/05_09_2012%207_05%20PM.gpx

Cheers
Daniel
dirk
Posted: 19 May 12


Posts: 177
Location: Oss, Netherlands
the gpx format is a world wide described format when using this format you have to validate it against a xsd. See in your file in the top lines. So when using a description of a waypoint as lap-marker you brake the interface. And when every site does something different, the gpx format loses its use as standard gps exchange format.

If users wants to have lap info in gpx files when using mytracks, runkeeper or whatever other phone app, they have to ask the app-builder(s) for it. When there are a lot of them, at some time in the future the option will be build in the app(s).

As a workarround, maybe some sitebuilders like Stuart here could build an add lap option. For instance sporttracks has an option to show every km next to recorded laps.
henteaser
Posted: 20 May 12


Posts: 7
Location: Finland
Yes, I investigated this further and you are absolutely right: the sport-tracks lap/splits is just a setting. When I think of it, a lap is a closed circuit that you run several times, so if you run a track you would not want laps. But what I would want is instead splits, that's the most useful thing I look at when analysing a run/cycling.

I've started using mytracks now instead. Runkeeper isn't good in the long run since it's closed sourced anyway.

Edit: "in the long run" is maybe a bad choice of words on a running site. What I mean't is good during many years and not during the marathon.
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