Creation of segments from laps

[Emilius123]

Most modern GPS devices such as wearables or cycling head units support marking laps. Strava also supports displaying these laps. This feature is used by many athletes to mark and help analyze different sections of their ride.

Adding the ability to create segments from laps would be an easier alternative to the current, quite fiddly, method.

[anchskier]

@Emilius123 - It would be nice if there was a way to do this; however, I do see one big aspect that would be problematic.  When I am making segments for an activity that involved multiple laps, such as a mountain bike race, I make sure to set the start point just after the start line and the end point just before the finish line.  This ensures that anyone who starts their device while at the start line isn't already timing within the segment and if someone stops right at the finish that the running timer on their device isn't still counting in the segment.  This gets a little more complicated when the "lap" has you go slightly outside of the finish chute or take a small cutoff before the finish line, so you need to adjust so the segment will start/end properly to be picked up on each lap.  It would be challenging for an automated system to account for that.  

[Emilius123]

@anchskier How about if adding the data of a lap was just a feature in the regular segment editor, meaning you'd be able to, if neccessary, adjust the segment from your lap?

[anchskier]

@Emilius123 - That may be an option.  It could have some button to select "use lap" or "create segment from lap" and then the next step would prompt the creator to make adjustments for start and end points as needed.  It could even be set to default to start and end a set distance after/before the actual start/finish that it calculates.  

[Soren]

Thanks for submitting your idea to create segments from laps. It has been reviewed by our moderation team and is now open to voting.

[steveandalice]

I think this is a great idea - I was wanting to do exactly that today and it wouldn't let me!