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Courses from GPS, Polar, or Topo Software
Import files from your Polar s710/720/725 Altimeter. He could also use data from their Garmin GPS receiver, or any Topographic software packages that support the .GPX file format, or the Garmin Forerunner .XML format. In this case the ride is an out and back. This ride is packaged as a demo with the software.
The altitude data is normalized to start at 0 elevation. We show an intermediate screen for clarity of the original data. Note the symmetry, but that the air-pressure had changed over the course of my ride (my journey over the Ottawa river, the low points at start and finish, show different elevation by 10m). In frame (2), the Peak-fit routine creates the sectioned-roadways connecting grade-inversions with no smoothing. Your ride data is interpolated to a fine grid, giving excellent detail capturing for road and mountain bike courses. The peak-fitting algorithm gives a set of roads of varying length, connecting the local low-points to local high-points with a constant grade. Here the "drop lines" are so frequent the display is cramped. This can be resolved using the Zoom-in function, shown in frame (3). To reduce the number of sections (and thus reduce the length of files and complexity), you can "smooth" your original data, and your course is re-computed with a more manageable number of sections shown, as in frame (4). There is also a "Segmented fit" algorithm which uses equal-sized sections of configurable length, and 1km sections are shown in frame(5). You can also use a "Manual fit" procedure if you would like full control over the fitting of roadways to the data (not shown).
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