Compare moving average and overall average

The task

Choose the profile before starting and confirm the units. The recorder accepts usable location fixes, filters implausible movement and avoids inventing a distance across an unusable gap. Keep Waymark in the foreground during recording. If you leave the app or stop location access, a complete background travel log should not be expected from this release.

A Waymark trip is a recording session with a start and end, accumulated distance, moving and stopped time, a maximum speed and a vehicle profile. It is not a stored line of route points. Trip distance is the main instrument reading; speed remains available beside it. An unfinished session and a saved trip are different states, so the final save is an important part of the workflow.

Follow the workflow

An average calculated over different time definitions is not a fair comparison.

• Read the average preference
• Note whether stops are included
• Compare like-for-like summaries

Review the result

Two sessions have similar distance but different waiting time. This is an illustrative scenario, not measured field-test evidence.

Read distance and timing together rather than judging a session from one number. Moving average excludes stopped time by default; the alternative average includes it. A pause you chose, an automatic pause and a GPS interruption have different causes. Note which occurred when comparing two sessions, especially if one journey included long stops or a period away from the app.

Quick reference

At a glance

1. 01 →Read the average preference
2. 02 →Note whether stops are included
3. 03 ✓Compare like-for-like summaries