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Anyone know of a suitable replacement for Strava SNAP?

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Old 08-20-17 | 05:17 PM
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Anyone know of a suitable replacement for Strava SNAP?

For those who used SNAP, I found it to be a very worthwhile tool. If you don't use it, basically it would "snap" your gps data to the road if your Garmin's gps track drifted from the road during a ride, and didn't record a time for a particular segment. It wasn't perfect (often the time would not be accurate), but it was better than not recording a segment effort. Apparently Strava owns the domain for that site, and for some dumb reason, decided to scuttle it because "not many people use it". Well *I* use it, and I know other people use it too, so that's a specious reason IMO. I know you can send a support ticket to fix the track data directly to Strava, but I've gotten worse results that way than I would when SNAP was running. Does anyone know of another site or program that does the same thing SNAP did? Or is there another way to manipulate Garmin .FIT files in an easy enough way to fix gps drift? (I've Googled this, and the obvious results (FIT File Tools, etc) do not fix bad/drifted gps data.)
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Old 08-20-17 | 08:50 PM
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I don't get it... How is an inaccurate result better than no result?

Seems to me it would just clutter up the segment leader boards with crap data.
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RunKeeper has an edit feature. You can export from Strava, import to RunKeeper, edit, then reverse the process. It has a manual mode where you can move the GPS point individually to the roads, and it has a "snap" mode, but it sometimes will move more than you want in snap mode. I think the trick is to edit in the direction of the ride. It also has a back button if the snap edit goes nuts.

When you import back into Strava you usually have to delete the original first, otherwise Strava thinks it is a duplicate.

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Old 08-21-17 | 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by AndrewJB
RunKeeper has an edit feature. You can export from Strava, import to RunKeeper, edit, then reverse the process. It has a manual mode where you can move the GPS point individually to the roads, and it has a "snap" mode, but it sometimes will move more than you want in snap mode. I think the trick is to edit in the direction of the ride. It also has a back button if the snap edit goes nuts.

When you import back into Strava you usually have to delete the original first, otherwise Strava thinks it is a duplicate.
I'll check it out thanks.
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Old 08-22-17 | 07:09 AM
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Some of the export/import options are not intuitive, this should help...
  • In Strava, go to the activity, pick the "Wrench" icon, then "Export TCX"
  • In RunKeeper, pick the "+ LOG" icon at the top of the page, then "Cycling", then "Upload Map" (TCX file)
  • To Edit in RunKeeper, go to activity, pick the "V" (down symbol) at upper right, then "Edit Activity"
  • Zoom in or expand the map, pick & move GPS points, or select & try the "Snap" option, "Save" when done. Use the "Back" button if things go wonky.
  • To export from RunKeeper, pick the "Gear" symbol at top right, then "Account Settings", then "Export Data"
  • Exporting is a few steps (it is designed to download multiple activities, but you only need the one you edited)
  • First you have to select a date range, then it takes a moment to find the activity, and give you a link to download.
  • Once downloaded you import the GPX file to Strava using the "+" icon at the top right. Then "File" on the left column, and "Choose File", and bring it back into Strava.

Seems a bit convoluted, but once you do it a few times it goes quickly

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