Merge Tours

The tour merge tool can merge data from one tour into another tour. This is very handy when you have a device which can not record all data you want and you have a second device which can record the desired data.

The only requirement to merge tours is, both tours must contain time slices, therefore manually created tours are excluded because they do not have these data.

Content

Terms
Conditions
Assign Merge Tour
Merge Tour Dialog
Save Actions
Horiz/Vert Adjustment
View Options
Modify Merged Tour

Terms

The merged tours are distinguished by their name in this description and in the application they use these names:

Source Tour
Is the tour which data is merged into the target tour.

Target Tour
Is the tour which receives data from a source tour.

Conditions

The target tour must be saved before the source tour can be assigned.
The source tour is automatically saved when the tours are merged, however to hide the source tour in other views or statistics, a tour type for the source tour can be set when the tours are merged.
Currently, altitude values can only be merged, when both tours contain altitude values.
Supported data which can be merged: altitude, heartbeat, temperature and cadence.
The merge tool is only available in the Tour Import view.

Assign Merge Tour

When you have read the terms and accepted the conditions, merging the tours can begin:

Source and target tour must be imported in the Tour Import view.
Select source tour.
Select Merge »...« into... in the view context menu.
The sub menu will display all tours which are displayed in the import view, these tours have been saved and contain recorded time slice values.
When a target tour is selected in the sub menu, the merge tour dialog is opened.

Merge Tour Dialog

This dialog has different areas:

Tour chart

Save actions

Horizontal and vertical adjustment

View options

Tour Chart

The tour chart displays the target tour and the graphs which are checked in the Save Actions area.

There are some additional graphs in the tour chart when altitude values are available:

Red line	Altitude graph of the source tour.
Black line	Altitude difference between source and target tour.
Blue filled area	When Merge Altitude is checked, the blue filled area displays the altitude graph of the merged target tour.

Save Actions

All checked actions will be done when the button Save Modified Target Tour is pressed.

Merge Heartbeat/Temperature/Cadence	These actions are enabled when the source tour contains the corresponding data.
Merge Altitude	This action is enabled, when the source and the target tour contains altitude values.
Apply altitude values from source tour	This will merge the altitude values from the source into the target tour.
Smooth altitude	This will smooth the merged altitude graph.
Adjust altitude until left slider position	This will adjust the altitude graph in the target tour from the tour start until the left slider position, the adjustment is done with a linear algorithm. This option can be very helpfull to adjust the altitude when the altitude at the start position is total wrong in the GPS device and the device will adjust the altitude automatically over a longer time period. When you have adjusted the horizontal and vertical position, move the left slider to the right until the altitude difference graph displays a minimum. This can be a hour or longer after the tour start.
Set tour type for the source tour	Sets the tour type in the source tour with the selected tour type.
Keep horizontal and vertical adjustments	This option cannot be unchecked because this is the default behaviour when the save button is pressed and no other actions are checked.

Horizontal and Vertical Adjustments

This allows the adjustment for the position of the source tour relative to the position of the target tour.

Synchronize tour start time	Sets the horizontal positon for the source tour exactly to the same time as the target tour. When both tours have exactly the correct time, this option can be used for the horzontal position, otherwise the horizontal positon can be adjusted with the sliders. The time sliders will show the time differences between synchronized start time.
Time sliders	The time can be adjusted for the source tour in the range of +/- 2 hours.
Altitude sliders	The altitude can be adjusted for the source tour in the ranges of +/- 420 m.
Reset Adjustment	Resets time and altitude adjustments to 0.
Reset Values	Resets time and altitude adjustments to the saved values.

View Options

Show altitude difference values with relative scaling

This option can toggle the scaling for the altitude difference values between relative and absolute.

When relative scaling is enabled, the maximum height for the graph is always half amount of the chart graph height.

Preview adjusted graphs

When this option is enabled, the tour chart will be updated immediatedly when the vert/horiz adjustment is modified.

This is helpful to see the adjusted merged data but slows down the painting of the tour chart.

This option is not necessary to display the merged altitude graph values because they are painted directly.

Modify Merged Tour

When a target tour is selected in the Tour Import or in in the Tour Book view, the merge tour dialog can be opened with the action Modify Merged Tour... in the view context menu.