So we all know the GPS data on walks and runs is highly problematic - when the device loses contact with enough GPS trackers, the position can jump wildly and it is not uncommon for the distance of a walk to end up doubled, as a result. Which is worse than useless data: it is detrimental data.
Why detrimental? Because the steps multiplied by stride distance does a stellar job of estimating distance, in comparison. So the be forced to taint that good estimate with a terrible GPS one when we walk or run, is really unnecessary, to put things mildly. And the only way to overcome this is to delete your entire exercise session - frustrating.
There has been a good feature request to be able to edit the GPS path, but Fitbit does not want to develop that capability at this time. So an interim solution, which should be completely trivial to develop, is the ability to get the app to ignore the GPS computation of distance. That way we still log the useful data of exercise time, average heart rate, peak heart rate, steps contributed to daily total (etc), but are not saddled with the wildly inaccurate distance data.
Please, PLEASE implement this. Without it, the walk and run exercises are unusable if you want your distance tally to be even remotely meaningful.
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