Is there a way of showing all the segments in an area rather than just the top 10 that you can see in the explore tab?
A few areas round here I've ridden in groups but would like to get a better idea how the various trails link together, but it's also popular with roadies, so even at the closest zoom level most of the top segments are the roads round the perimeter.
The heatmap's better, but doesn't indicate names/direction.
Can you filter by steepness of hill ?
If you put it to flat/ downhill that should filter out many of the road rides.
But I was struggling with the same last night. I also found that just moving the map around by a fraction made rides appear and disappear with dubious logic.
i find a good segment, look at the top ten riders and look at the rides they did when they set those times. I work on the basis they will be locals and know the best loops round their woods. then I download the GPX and follow it.
I've not found a way to show more than the top ten, but what i have found is that if i change the 'climb category' to flat/downhill only, then zoom in and find something likely to be good, (wiggly, silly/fun name)that's a start.
I tried out the Strava free month offer a while ago and forgot about it, so I've unwittingly paid for a year. It has a great advantage, which is that I can click on a segment, find individual rider's loops and download them as GPX. If you pull in 2-3 different rides and import them to an OS mapping application like memory map, you can soon piece together a good ride.
edit- like wot Jam bo said. Some might think it's a bit of a stalker tactic, but i wouldn't bother if someone did the same to my rides.
even at the closest zoom level
Not sure if this will help you, but I find if I can't find a trail on the normal map, if you change the map to 'Satellite', you can sometimes zoom in further and be able to find it.
http://labs.strava.com/heatmap
The Strava Heatmap doesn't show segments, or give you easy access to further information, but it does show where most activity is taking place. I use it in conjunction with the segment map to find ways of joining segments up.
The trails that I use Strava to find (from time to time) are the ones that hardly get any traffic.
I follow the same sort of approach as jambo.
Feels a bit sneaky sometimes, but I don't then tell all and sundry about them so I can live with myself.
Why do some peoples rides have a download GPX option and others don't? Is this related to peoples privacy settings?.
Yes.
Can someone put up a link to a Strava activity which doesn't have the Download GPX link ?
I want to try something 🙂
https://www.strava.com/activities/326868851
I've got enhanced privacy on, so:
[i]Only approved followers can see and download your activities on your Strava Profile[/i]
Strava are missing a trick there. If I pay for strava, should I not be able to download GPX from folks that don't?.
That's the kind of thing that they'd usually do.
if you pay, you can download from anyone you follow or anyone who hasn't ticked the enhanced privacy option.
i think there is a workaround via using the create route option but it doesnt work very well offroad.
I think there's a long standing feature request with Strava to allow users to specify road/offroad segments in the map. They've just done a good job of ignoring it so far.
It sounds like they aren't much interested in the mountain bike scene, from what I've read, and see their bread and butter as roadies and runners.
You can create a GPX file from any publicly visible activity in Strava even as a non-premium user:
Open the activity
Click the spanner on the left
The second option is "Create Route"
This route is yours so now when you look at the route and click on the spanner you can export a GPX file.
The one thing that you can't do is prevent Strava from publicly logging this with "Fred_Smith created the route ....". I don't know if being a premium member gets round that bit.
I suspect it's litigious reasons too, on the road if someone crashes you can point to the quality of the road, or their decision not to stop at the junction. Off-road there isn't any of that. If a segment is there it's reasonable* to assume it's not been flagged as hazardous, therefore isn't hazardous.
*to a no-win-no-fee lawyer.
Open the activity
Click the spanner on the left
The second option is "Create Route"This route is yours so now when you look at the route and click on the spanner you can export a GPX file.
works on the road, really, really doesn't work offroad...
@jam bo - are you looking at having turn by turn instructions? If so then I've not got that to work (I'm using a Garmin 510)
[quote=jam bo said> https://www.strava.com/activities/326868851
I've got enhanced privacy on, so:
Only approved followers can see and download your activities on your Strava Profile
GPX downloaded and I'm not a Strava premium user 🙂
W00t!
this is the route that strava generates for me from that ride.
https://www.strava.com/routes/2664797
cheers jam bo, looks useless.
[quote=dawson said]@Allthepies - can you share the hack?
It's an extension for Chrome, if you're a Chrome user then ping me an Email and I'll add you to the user list who can access it.