Auto-stop recording on unlikely speed reading/stationary periods

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I often use MyTracks to record a walk ending up at my car to drive home.  
Occasionally, I forget to stop recording the track when I get to the car, thus 
the journey home in the car is also recorded, making the average speed values 
nonsensical.

I think it would be great to have a setting which recognises an unusually high 
speed and stops recording - if I've been walking at say 5 - 8 miles per hour 
for half hour or an hour or so, a sudden reading of double or triple that 
probably means I've changed mode of transport, and might want to stop recording 
the track (and maybe discard the unusually high speed readings, so that my 
recorded track for a walk doesn't show my max walking speed as the speed I 
reached in the vehicle :) ).

Perhaps a more flexible way would be an option to provide a reminder to 
stop/pause track recording when you become stationary for more than 10-20 
seconds, say - "You appear to have stopped moving; if you are done with the 
activity you were tracking, select stop recording now to save your track" or 
something similar.

What do you think?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bigpresh@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2011 at 4:00

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For bicyclists who use an ANT+Sport enabled device, issue #795 (auto-stop 
recording when the bicycle goes out of ANT+Sport sensor range) might do the 
trick. Maybe something similar could be done for an ANT+Sport foot pod.

Original comment by msmak...@gmail.com on 4 Feb 2012 at 8:03

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Auto-stop will always have the issue of being wrong. A better solution is to 
allow users to delete track points after a recording. There is already a 
feature request for deleting track points. 

Original comment by jshih@google.com on 11 Sep 2012 at 12:28

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