Some direction symbols not exported as proper FIT course point types

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• Lasse Lasse   Friday 16 Sep 2022 18:04:39

  When I prepare my hiking routes with plotaroute, I rely heavily on the directions feature to add waypoints for water, shelter, supermarkets, campsites etc., using symbols to indicate the type of waypoint because this nicely shows up on the map and is also displayed by my Garmin watch.

  With the recent FIT SDK 21.89 release, Garmin has finally added a list of additional course point types that makes this feature even more useful. I was very happy to discover that plotaroute already supports some of them (e.g. campsite, toilet, transport/train station). However there a few missing that I would love to see supported:

  FIT course point (id)  <-> Plotaroute symbol
  store (48)  <-> shop
  rest_area (29) <-> picnic site
  shelter (36)  <-> accommodation could work, but even better would be a new symbol, since shelters are more basic

  I would also propose to map Plotaroute's "water source" to FIT's "water (3)" as it is already the case with "drinking water", since Garmin/FIT doesn't differentiate.

  Thank you!

  PS: Is there an overview of the symbol to FIT course point mappings somewhere? I only found an old thread in the Garmin forum regarding the limited old mappings.

• plotaroute admin   Saturday 17 Sep 2022 11:58:52

  Thanks for that feedback Lasse. We did recently add some new Point Types for FIT files, but we'd need to investigate to see whether any of the ones you suggested can be added.

• Peter Höglund   Saturday 17 Sep 2022 12:58:30

  "We did recently add some new Point Types for FIT files". This is great. Is it documented somewhere which one you added?

  It would be great if it could be visible when selecting symbols in some way, which ones are supported in fit.

• plotaroute admin   Monday 19 Sep 2022 08:39:00

  Hi Peter,

  All the Plotaroute symbols are supported but most will be mapped to the Generic Point Type, as there isn't another suitable one. This is the current list we have for symbols that don't map as Genric:

  Plotaroute Symbol	FIT PointType
  Mountain	Summit
  Drinking Water	Water
  Food	Food
  Warning	Danger
  First Aid	FirstAid
  Runners	Sprint
  Campsite	Campsite
  Meeting Point	MeetingSpot
  Toilets/Restroom	Toilet
  Shower	Shower
  Uphill	SteepIncline
  Paths Cross	Crossing
  Bus Stop, Train Station	Transport
  Information	Info

  However, if there is a turn at that point in the route, the turn will be used to set the Point Type instead of any symbol selected:

  Plotaroute Turn Arrow	FIT PointType
  Left	Left
  Right	Right
  Straight	Straight
  Slight Left	SlightLeft
  Sharp Left	SharpLeft
  Slight Right	SlightRight
  Sharp Right	SharpRight
  U Turn	UTurn

• Lasse Lasse   Wednesday 21 Sep 2022 10:49:26

  Thank you for the list of supported FIT course point types, this is very helpful.

  I suggest to add the following mappings to expand the coverage even more:

  Plotaroute Symbol	FIT PointType
  Picnic Site	RestArea
  Water Source	Water
  Shop	Store
  Accommodation	Shelter

   

• plotaroute admin   Thursday 22 Sep 2022 08:40:19

  Thanks Lasse. We've got to make changes to our download process for a separate bug fix, so we'll see if we can add those in at the same time. 

• Peter Höglund   Thursday 22 Sep 2022 21:55:00

  My wish list for new FIT file symbol types:

  (Plotaroute symbol -> Fit file course point type)

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• Peter Höglund   Thursday 22 Sep 2022 22:01:29

  And maybe this one:

  

• Peter Höglund   Friday 23 Sep 2022 06:15:27

  What do you say about:

  

• plotaroute admin   Friday 23 Sep 2022 08:22:09

  Just in time Peter! Most of those look straightfoward. Not sure about one or two of them - T for tunnel for example, as people could be using that for other purposes, so displaying a tunnel symbol might not be appropriate. We'll add in as many as we can.