Allow for "other" sports

[prochlorothrix]

A nice enhancement could be to allow to upload data for sports different from running, swimming and cycling by allowing users to indicate "other" in trackeRdata() and manually set the relevant parameters in other functions.

[ikosmidis]

Sure; we can consider this. Do you have an example (data file and code) from another sport that you can share in order to get a better idea of what you are exactly after?

[prochlorothrix]

This is an example of session recorded using a garmin device using the "other" category (actually some paddling). I upload both the original fit file and the tcx export from garmin connect. No special sensors in this case, it only records basic data such as time, position, speed and hearth rate. I think it would be nice to have a basic category with these fields, allowing users to add others if needed.
3595500324.zip

[ikosmidis]

Thanks. That makes sense. I am leaving the issue open for consideration in the next release. My initial thoughts for handling this are as follows:

• Currently, upon import, trackeR tries very hard to determine the sport from the filename and the metadata. If it fails then we will be automatically classifying the sport as "Other"
• The user will later be able to change the sport for each session, as they wish, in one of running, cycling, swimming and other

[prochlorothrix]

Sounds fine!