Altitude
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As @Jörgen says, it's just useful and interesting information.
Hi @David-Emmett I will concede it is interesting information but I still don't see how it is a useful piece of when navigating a motorcycle or car
I believe the altitude information may be contained in the recorded logs so it is available to inspect after the trip is completed -
It is in the logs. But where is the fun in digging through the logs? (I mean, there is fun in digging through the logs, but it's an entirely different activity).
I find it interesting, as I ride, to see speed, compass direction (roughly, I don't need bearing) and elevation. My interest is purely fleeting, at the moment of riding, and does not extend beyond "I wonder how high we are now?". I think I am not unique in having this casual curiosity.
This is not information that is absolutely necessary while navigating. It is merely additional information that some of us find interesting while riding. Hence my suggestion to make it a togglable field (in fact, adding a togglable field would also allow that field to be used for a selection of values, such as bearing in degrees, temperature, barometric pressure, GPS accuracy, battery %, or whatever. None of these are necessary, but I can imagine people being interested enough to want to see them.)
It was a feature of Garmin devices to show elevation. Though the worst bug I saw on the last Garmin I used was that elevation would be shown in metres up to 999m, then switch to kilometres. So it would go 997-998-999-1km and then you had to wait for the next 1000 metres of elevation before the display changed to 2km. Which sucked.
Anyway, there are workarounds for this, but they are a pain in the behind. It is just a nice to have feature, which is why I am posting it in this part of the forum
