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It's no secret that many people in the cycling and running communities enjoy a nice cold beverage.  I often plan routes that pass by or end at breweries, but sometimes I'm not aware if there is another one nearby.  Strava currently displays Cafe's on the maps, but doesn't have an icon for a Brewery.  It would be a great addition to have specific icon on the maps for breweries on the map view. Update from Strava: Breweries are not currently a Point of Interest but Bars and Cafes are. You can view existing Points of Interest Here ... View more

Users could immediately spot the best places to run/bike/hike. The POI or segments could change color every 50 kudos received. Example: white 0-50 kudos, grey 50-100 kudos, black more then 100 kudos. Thank you  ... View more

As a Strava athlete I use to plan my bicycle routes in advance. When planning routes it should be really nice if wind data was displayed on the map when searching for routs.  wind should be displayed with live forecast with a gradient like the heat map on the route, based on the m/s and the route direction and likely headwind.  visible on saved routes or suggested regarding todays forecast and the routes directions.    ... View more

Strava’s recommended routes are really handy, but I’ve often found myself running through a dark park, or a very poorly lit area as part of the route (and without prior knowledge). As a woman, it can often be a scary situation and makes me apprehensive about getting out to run during the winter. I believe strava can significantly enhance user safety by integrating street light level data into its suggested running routes. With safety a paramount concern, providing street light information would enable runners to make informed decisions, reducing the risk of accidents or hazards during low-light conditions. This also promotes inclusivity and accommodates for diverse needs so that all users, regardless of ability, can access safer routes.  One way to do this could be through community collaboration, and asking users to rate the run based on lighting conditions. This would furthermore foster community engagement and a sense of purpose in wanting to ensure all other runners are safe. For a safer running world. Thank you 🙂  ... View more

When planning a route on mobile, need the ability to filter the heat map by active activity type.  Currently, when planning a route on mobile, the heat map does not filter by type. For example: If planning a run, the heatmap reflects common cycling paths, mountain biking, walking, hiking, and running paths. This makes it extremely difficult to plan an activity in a new location, and be confident it is actually a commonly traveled path.  I find when planning a run on the mobile app, using the heat map, I'm often mislead and lead down dangerous high traffic roads with no running path or sidewalk, because the road is commonly traveled by road cyclists.  Currently, the heat map can only be filtered by activity on the desktop/web application,    ... View more

Others have pointed out that Strava route finder sometimes uses very unsafe roads.  Frequently the excuse for this is that Strava uses OpenStreetMap as the underlying map.  But that doesn't cover the issue of what is safe or otherwise feels safe.  OpenStreeMap doesn't record how cyclist feel about particular legal routes and doesn't record actual cases of incidents. The issue of unsafe roads has been a huge problem since cycling route finders began.  Strava's heatmap based is a really powerful tool for finding fun rides. However mapping the roads that cyclists frequently use only get's half the picture. Feature request: Let cyclists mark sections of roads a "no-go" or "do not use". If this was immediately part of the Routes UI it could either record for just that one route or all future routes for the user. While it would be really useful for just that user, it would also provide information to Strava so that Strava could build up an inverse heatmap of undesirable roads to overlay with the heatmap of popular roads. Eg: if I have a ride which contained a really hair raising section of busy and dangerous road, the first thing I do when I get home is to "fix" the route to avoid it.  Currently, I must pull the route off the undesirable road.  But what would be much better is to simply mark that section of road as "no go" and let the route finder figure out the alternative. Why heatmap isn't enough Here in the UK there's a fairly obvious collection of unsafe / undesirable roads.  Literally any road number starting with "A" and a speed limit above 30mph with no off road cycle path (eg: A34).  These are legal for cyclists! But it most other respects they are a motorway / freeway. And yet A roads too often get used in strava route finder and show up on the heatmap.  One explanation for this is that local knowledge can sometimes trump the danger.  For example A roads can be subject to a lot of slow moving traffic at peak times and commuter cyclists will take advantage of the traffic jams. "Sure I'll cycle along that road at 8:30 am on my way to work, but at any other time I'd get killed" It is complex, because sometimes an A road is fine for 100m if there's a disjointed cross roads.  Sometimes you just have to cross the A road, and that's legal and (mostly) fine.  But that's a totally different story to a route taking me down 5-6 miles of A road. A heatmap marking a road is undesirable would be a good way to counter the inevitble truth that undesirable roads also show up in the heatmap sometimes.   Mods please note: This is not remotely related to this other feature request ... View more

I suggest making available the selection of activities for which you want to see the heatmap during planning, or at least the global heatmaps. Currently the visible heatmaps are only those corresponding to the activity you are planning, and, especially with regards to personal heatmaps, it is rather frustrating: if I have been in a place during a walk or a running activity, little changes in my opinion! ... View more

I would love to have the feature to add a Strava segment to my route, like we can currently do with a waypoint. This would definitely make planning routes based on segments much easier. At the moment I can display the segments in the route planner, but unfortunately I can't add them directly to my route. I always have to set my waypoints accordingly and make sure that the route takes the right turns, as the segment is not always the most popular route. On most other route planning platforms with segments this is already possible and I would like to see this feature in Strava as well to use the great Strava segments more efficiently.   ... View more

As a user of Stava Premium who is on a PC and mobile, I would like the ability to automatically generate routes as you can on mobile; so that I do not need to switch from one device to another to plan what route I want to find. The Mobile UI for segments and routes, isn't bad but mobile has limitations with interactivity, which is resolved by viewing routes on a desktop, e.g., screen size is a limitation on mobile which is not an issue on PC. This results in:  generating routes on mobile picking one that looks okay saving the route moving onto the pc adjusting the route manually It would be much nicer flow if you could just generate routes on webpage rather than it be an inapp exclusive feature ... View more

Importance: Saving lives through crowdsourced data. Details: It would be great to be able to report point locations on our activities where we experienced Near-Miss incidents, and capture the data (including GPS track, speed, heart rate, power, etc) for a 1/8 mile before and 1/8 mile after (to ensure the data was captured and provide data leading up to the near-miss). There have been countless projects devoted to capturing near-misses, (Close Call Database, BikeMaps.org, Cyclist Video Evidence, NoVA FSS) but not to the extent that the Strava user community reaches and none of them include the GPS track data that Strava captures. This data should be anonymized and provided free of charge to the user community and government agencies, as it can benefit Strava users and society by helping to reduce near-misses and crashes. The data could also be included in existing Strava products and features like Strava Metro - Allow agencies to create a bounding box where they can get notified of new reports to take action on and create dashboards from, routing - avoid/heavily weigh areas of high reports, and more directly by audibly warning users when they're coming upon a "hot-spot". Additionally Strava could pull in crash data in include it in a similar way. ... View more

Hello! When planning a bike trip, I'd like to be able to be able to see all my favourites segments so that I can draw a route that contains some of these segments. I'm sure other people would like the idea. The feature could be as simple as: - in the Create Route view, there is currently a tick box "Show segments". There could be another one: "Show my favourite segments".   thanks! Victor ... View more

When creating a route, often the route line hides the presence or lack of heatmap traffic. My idea would be a graph, similar to the Elevation Graph, that you could toggle and show "heatmap density" along the planned route.   This would allow route creators to see which sections of their route maybe less than ideal and search for alternative paths. ... View more

When I'm planning a gravel bike ride, I want to know where all the gravel / dirt / unpaved roads are - not just the ones along my planned route. In the route planning map, it shows me which sections of my current route are paved vs dirt -vs unknown - so it's clear that Strava has this data about many roads - but in order to know whether other roads are dirt, I have to drag a waypoint over to them, which is slow and awkward. In the routing preferences, I can choose between "prefer dirt surfaces", "prefer paved surfaces", and "any surface", which is useful, but isn't the same as being able to see where everything is. Often, I am willing to go out of the way to ride a new gravel/dirt road, but I might not ever discover it by relying on the "prefer dirt surfaces" routing option. I'd like to see the surface type of all roads on the map - perhaps as a layer that I can turn on or off like the heatmap layers. ... View more

A feature that is currently not available in Strava, Komoot or other route planners is the following of segments. There are many segments that are not directly on a road and it is very cumbersome to manually "follow" them. With a "Follow Segment" feature, you would definitely have a huge selling point for your community, as no one else offers this yet. ... View more

Create suggested routes considering time of day data for safe routing, so you set the time you will be doing the route and it only generates routes popular at that time of day. This is will help many sports: Cycling - Not routing down the middle of the highway at 10am when it is safe at 6am but most definitely not in peak hour. Running -  Not routing in a dark park after dark rather staying to the streets which would be more popular at night-time. ... View more

I participate in many social bike rides each week. While Strava offers some helpful features, most groups resort to using a scattered mix of platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Meetup, public Google calendars, and even text reminders to manage rides. Strava could implement a comprehensive group event management solution that streamlines this process. This would ideally include: Groups can post their schedules (existing feature). Ride leaders can plot the actual route (requires permission management for editing group events). A beacon feature allows latecomers to locate the group in real-time. Users can subscribe to recurring rides under a club, with automatic syncing to their phone calendars. Push notifications for subscribed rides, keeping everyone informed about route changes, ride leaders, store stops, and more. Push notifications and/or text message reminders for upcoming subscribed events. Automatic recording triggered at the start location for all subscribed participants. Automatic cross-posting of events to Facebook Events, Instagram Activities, etc. Push notifications to users that a group activity they are subscribed to is near their current location (configurable distance). Strava's Potential: Strava is already a fantastic platform for activity recording and has a social media framework. However, for a truly social experience, discipline-specific features might be necessary and each activity has unique needs. This approach, with a mix of core functionalities and potential premium features, would allow Strava to cater to a wider range of users while offering valuable tools for group leaders.   ... View more

It would be great to be able to import (or also create) routes for activity type for Ski touring. ... View more

Please add ability to hide (or reduce opacity) route line in map view so you can view the map features beneath the route.  ... View more

I often find interesting routes I like to take over, but it is almost impossible to easily change the start and finish of a round route. It would be very useful if you could just move the start/finish on an existing route. ... View more