Strava inventing an imaginary 18% hill in Gloucestershire

daxplusplus
daxplusplus Posts: 631
edited June 2013 in Road general
http://app.strava.com/segments/4517382

Strava seem to have completely made up this cat 4 hill in Gloucestershire .. check out the contour lines (or lack of). If anything that bit of road is downhill.

Any ideas what's going on?
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  • bartimaeus
    bartimaeus Posts: 1,812
    Yep, rubbish GPS track with poor start elevation - giving a 112m meter climb in the first 150 metres or so once the GPS corrected itself. And Strava automatically created Cat4 and above climbs from whatever is uploaded. Report it and get it deleted... I've got rid of two phantom cols on flat roads where I live - it would be good if Strava could recognise that a climb from -50m was probably spurious as it does have an elevation DB to check against.
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  • daxplusplus
    daxplusplus Posts: 631
    Many thanks for the explanation - reported it.

    It's a nice little road there but it it ain't no hill :)
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  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    Heh, a KOM is a KOM. I'd take anything I can get :)
  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    Why flag it and get it deleted?
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  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    Oh no, a computer programme made an oppsie.

    Do we really need threads on every single hill which is not actually a hill on Strava?
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  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    I guess the automatic creation might be the reason why some seem to go up a hill then turn a particular way at a crossroads, and continue for 100 metres, and sensible segment creator would end the segment at the junction.
  • daxplusplus
    daxplusplus Posts: 631
    Bobbinogs wrote:
    Heh, a KOM is a KOM. I'd take anything I can get :)

    Very true.

    But I was just gob smacked that I'd got a climbing KOM .. that's why I looked into it.

    (Actually this is all an elaborate way for me to of boast that I'd gotten a KOM without actually directly mentioning it :))
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  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    My garmin has tried to do this in the past although not so extreme... I set an elevation point which sorted it

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