Garmin vs Polar

Compare recordings from Garmin and Polar with the actual route.

Metrics

These are the metrics I use for comparison:

• location
• elevation
• distance

User guide

GPX data from Polar and Garmin:

• download Polar GPX from Polar Flow (polar.gpx)
• download Garmin GPX from Garmin Connect (garmin.gpx)
• correct elevation on Strava activity and download GPX from Strava (elevation.gpx)

GPX for the route:

• use Google Maps to get coordinates of start and stop location
• use get-segment.py to extract slice of GPX route based on start/stop location
• save resulting GPX as route.gpx

Hardware

• Garmin eTrex Solar (Nov 16, 2023)
• Polar Vantage V (Sept 13, 2018)

Notes

Write up of findings: https://medium.com/@arbatov/two-views-of-one-run-10739b78b4e6