Getting Strava computed location in the activity API

Question

Strava calculates the nearest possible location of where an activity was performed. For example, if you ride your bike in a local state park, Strava is able to retrieve that information and add it next to the time and date of your activity. Is it possible to expose this information as part of the API response for an activity?

The use case I have is to get the location data and stick it to the title as part of post process automation to indicate where an activity was performed.

ActivityFix · Accepted Answer

I agree it would be nice to have in the information returned from getActivity. Unless/until that is implemented, a few other options for you:Use a publicly available reverse geocoding service to pass the start location coordinates and get back a placename. E.g. Google (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/geocoding-reverse), Geoapify (https://www.geoapify.com/reverse-geocoding-api), etc...Run a reverse geocoding service on your server, e.g. RRGeo (https://github.com/gx0r/rrgeo)I believe the list of segments returned has a location for each. You could use the location of the first segment, though depending on how many segments exist in an area and the user's privacy zones this may not be ideal.

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