View your logged track with GPXSee

[hkbikee]

One for the track logging lovers:

Google maps is not so detailed when looking at the dashboard. Seems also they just have roads, no many trails. 

So here is what I did:

You can download GPS logged track from the Fitbit dashboard in a *.tcx format - that is great! 

Now, openstreetmap looks way more detailed than Google maps, but you want to see your track, right? This is where GPXSee (free and Open Source) comes to rescue. 

http://www.gpxsee.org  or  https://github.com/tumic0/GPXSee

Install it on your PC, set Map to Open Street Map, use File Open to open your *.tcx - it looks sooo much better!

Compare it:

From the Fitbit DashboardSame *.tcx data from GPXSee

[Baltoscott]

Thanks for posting these instructions @hkbikee.  

I knew I could download the .tcx file for WPD activities but have never done it party because I didn’t know what to do with it.  Good to know about GPXSee.

Cheers.

[SunsetRunner]

Another good analytics tool is https://quantified-self.io/ which is available online ( I prefer online tools rather than standalone, the GPXSee didn't run on my version of Ubuntu ).

[hkbikee]

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@SunsetRunner wrote:

Another good analytics tool is https://quantified-self.io/ which is available online ( I prefer online tools

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I prefer online tools too! I didn't see upload function. Seems to be very, very early alpha version.

[SunsetRunner]

There is but not very intuitive. You need to login. Create anonymous account and there will be option to add files. From there again it is a bit of struggle to get to other screens but once you get to compare files it becomes really useful. This tool reads data as separate streams ( stream of HR, altitude, cadence etc. ) so you can compare easily any data you want for various files. But yeah, if only UI was clearer 😄

[sn2019]

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@SunsetRunner wrote:

Another good analytics tool is https://quantified-self.io/ which is available online ( I prefer online tools rather than standalone, the GPXSee didn't run on my version of Ubuntu ).

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Interesting tool but I am not able to change the setting so it shows distance in miles instead of Km.

EDIT: Don't know when they did the update but version 8.1 on Windows supports units in metric, imperial and nautical.

[Lyl3]

I also had the same problem of GPXSee not running on my version of Ubuntu (18.04), but I found an AppImage of GPXSee v7.9 that runs just fine:

https://github.com/probonopd/GPXSee/releases/tag/continuous