I have my Adventurer set to automatically export to Strava. I'm not sure if this is really their problem or if it's something TomTom should do differently... It seems like the very first entry that the Adventurer creates in the .gpx file for an activity is at zero elevation. MySports seems to ignore this outlier and report elevation gain correctly. However, Strava honors this zero entry (at least the last few days) and counts starting elevation as elevation gained. Anyone else with this issue? I don't want to have to manually edit every activity...
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I hope this helped answer your question. If so, please mark it as a solution so others can look for it if they have the same question.
https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000024864-Announcing-Strava-s-Elevation-Basemap
Due to the spurious zero that TT is sending, I have to specifically tell Strava to use their database instead of my altimeter. Or I'll have to edit the .gpx file and do a manual import every time.
IF this is due to the altimeter not being ready, should there not be an indicator similar to the "GPS Acquired" indicator to say that the altimeter is also ready? The watch shouldn't say "I'm ready" when it's not...
Also, I find it hard to believe that it's an issue of not being ready. Granted, I only looked at 3 gpx exports from MySports, but all 3 of them had only the first entry with zero altitude. The very next entry just one second later reports the correct altitude. This isn't an issue of "matching Strava" so much as an issue of outputting bad data.