[talk-au] Mapping tracks from Strava heatmap

[Adam Horan]

This page
https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918877-Strava-Metro-and-the-Global-Heatmap
says that "The Global Heatmap shows 'heat' made by aggregated, public
activities *over the last year.*"

So it's possible there were routes showing when the original mapper mapped
this but they've expired now.


On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 at 22:10, Adam Horan <ahoran at gmail.com> wrote:

> My view is also that Strava heatmaps are insufficient on their own to
> prove a track. They do show that a reasonable number of people have passed
> along a particular route in recent times. They don't prove a path or track,
> and they give no indication of permissions.
>
> However I did look for details of way 963735356 in the Strava heatmap, and
> there's very little in Strava in that area. It's possible the user did have
> the heatmap open in iD but didn't trace all the routes from there. Some
> might be 'local knowledge'.
>
> I do make use of the strava heatmaps frequently to refine the route of
> known tracks, especially if there's lots of tree cover and you can't see
> the tracks too well in imagery.
> 10s or 100s of averaged GPS tracks is better than a single GPS track which
> you might record yourself.
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 at 18:24, Tom Brennan <website at ozultimate.com> wrote:
>
>> Do people have a view on the armchair mapping of tracks from Strava
>> heatmaps?
>>
>> I can see a bunch of tracks in Kanangra-Boyd NP that have been mapped by
>> an overseas mapper off Strava heatmap.
>>
>> They almost certainly don't exist on the ground. They are known
>> bushwalking routes (off track), but would be very unlikely to have a
>> track even in good times, let along after the fires and 3 years of La
>> Nina!
>>
>> Example:
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/952248376
>>
>> cheers
>> Tom
>> ----
>> Canyoning? try http://ozultimate.com/canyoning
>> Bushwalking? try http://bushwalkingnsw.com
>>
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