Feature Idea / Improvement - Skiing up cable cars.

[mkj0]

Just noticed that I had tracked a new high top-speed today on a ski run. Then noticed it was when I was travelling up a lift 😄

I'm not sure what the best way to handle this could be.

Perhaps with skiing and snowboarding, any part of a route that is in a straight line for more than 10 seconds is likely to be a lift, and that section from start to finish could be excluded from the stats? Perhaps lift sections could be highlighted on the map in a different colour so you can more easily see where routes and lifts overlap?

There may also be times where a single lift changes direction in the middle that might need handling.

It would be nice if something can be done - it saves us getting cold wrists from having to manually stop and start our devices at the top and bottom of a run ;-)

Thanks

Mike

[jovandeginste]

This sounds fairly complex... I guess it would be easier to detect if you're going up (for a certain time) instead of down?

[mkj0]

That would probably work for most scenarios, but it's possible for lifts to drop as well.

One example I recall is a cable-car that spanned an entire valley from one side to the other, and will likely have gone down almost as much as it went up.

I don't know what your thoughts are on ChatGPT, but I've asked for its suggestions. On the surface, what it came back with sounds reasonable, but I'm not a Go developer, so I don't know if the code is nonesense. I'll drop it here in case you want a look. I might install an IDE and see if I can feed some of my gpx files through and see what happens.

https://chatgpt.com/share/678d7053-3b58-8003-ac91-45b96b9237af

Cheers,

Mike

[jovandeginste]

Whatever we pick, it will need some changes in the way workouts are analyzed and stored. I also thing we don't need a 100% solution: a 90% solution (or even 50%) with easy manual overrides would go a long way and give us the space to get closer to that 100%. So: a nice idea, but has to wait until I get some other stuff reworked!

I didn't look at the chatgpt code just yet; feel free to test it out!