Strava personal heat map

[Chris Heg]

Some of you may find this interesting.

https://cultureplot.com/strava-heatmap/

[Evil Jim]

LOL, Chris -

  When the page loaded, my first thought was, "I can't see Chris' heatmap.  The site won't let me get around connecting my own data...this doesn't work at all."

The second thought was more on track...

"Oh, Chris just meant the site itself..."

😆

Jim

On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM Chris Heg <cth...@gmail.com> wrote:

Some of you may find this interesting.

https://cultureplot.com/strava-heatmap/

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[Marcus Moore]

For those who would like to game the whole street map / going places element:

I give you Wandrer

It takes your Strava data, overlays it on OpenMaps & then shows you the road that you have / haven't ridden on with %age complete for suburbs, county, state - bonus for completing 25, 50, 75, 90 & 100 (well 99) % of each of those as well as a leaderboard for each too. Monthly (& yearly) rewards for the most 'new' roads ridden (or walked).

It gets to be fun trying to cover all of a suburb, county, state (:o) & you start searching for new, less travelled roads - getting to that 100% can be challenging.

(during Covid, I ended up riding 99.7% of my county in Sydney)

For a small yearly fee, it can make for some fun chasing new roads.

[Marcus Moore]

My coverage of "Sydney"

[Marcus Moore]

actual Sydney

[Peter Curley]

Chris - Interesting website. I've been using the standard Strava heatmap to ride all the neighborhoods of SF. I've tried Wanderer but I don't like the fact that many times you can complete a neighborhood but it still rates your completion at less than 100%.

I just generated the following map with https://cultureplot.com/strava-heatmap/ . I like that it gives you more options than the Strava heatmap to control the look of the map but like Strava I wish all the lines were of equal thickness. I think that would make the map look better....

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[Marcus Moore]

The "problem" for Wandrer is somewhat a Wandrer problem, but also a 'tracking' problem

Quite often in Wandrer with, say, a two-way road that also has bikepaths on the side - so four paths - tracking of your path along the road 'wanders' & is not a straight line - zoom in on your Strava track & the line wanders all over the place. So Wandrer doesn't necessarily see you "only on the bike path" for one of the passes of those four paths - you may end up travelling the road seven or eight times before 'capturing' the whole road. It's much easier if there's only one path per road / track / etc.

I've had fun riding new roads - the challenge in Seattle is that the topography doesn't follow the north-south / east-west road alignments!!

[don person]

I have more “problems “ with Wandrer giving credit for a road or path next to the one I am on. 

The less than 100% credits are usually from map anomalies where there are not actually roads or they have private roads on the base map. 

They have notes on how to update maps 

All in all, I don’t expect it to be 200% “correct “

shiggy Don Person
Dead Center WA

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