✓Mobile app: Show maps with option to hide / turn off Suggested Routes

[ViktorSafar]

I would like to draw my own route independent of any potentially found routes around me. The button is currently not shown until the routes around me load, which in most cases is a waste of time and resources, and in cases of failure means no button at all. (Several failures in a row prompted me to write this suggestion.) 

Update from Strava:

Thanks to all who voted and commented. I'm pleased to let you know that we recently rolled a new "map only" feature on IOS and Android. 

 

When you select Map features, you will now see a new option “Map Only”. This mode does not show Segments or Routes and enables you to explore new areas and get the most value out of our Global Heatmap and their Personal Heatmap!

Thanks again to all who contributed to this idea.

[Jane]

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[ipsum]

Hello, I would like to suggest adding the ability to turn on/off the suggested maps/segments in the new map view on iOS. While they can be helpful, sometimes I want to simply look around the map without suggestions. The suggestions really clutter the interface (Google Maps does something similar, and it drives me crazy). Simpler is better, and then allow users to turn on suggestions as they need. Thanks for your work on the app!

[JulesPilois]

UI Improvement: Maps Tab on mobile

I love exploring my neighbourhood and painting the city orange, so having access to the global and personal heatmaps and suggested routes on my phone is awesome to see where I've been and go/plan where I haven't! 

However, I wish to have the ability to view the map and heatmap without having to view a suggested route and associated info panel. This could perhaps be an option on the "Map Features" drop down where you can choose between "Routes", "Segments", and preferably by default, "Blank".

Alternatively, it would be helpful to simply be able to hide or slide down the info panel of the currently suggested route.

Android - latest version 359.16 

[LukeMillar]

The recent update changing the heatmap view to always show suggested routes without option to remove them is a net negative. It’s really nice to be able to quickly view the heatmap to see what streets/routes are highly used and having the orange route cover the heatmap color graficar 

[MR1]

It is so disturbing to have the route suggestions when I want to look around my heatmap. This was not an issue before, just became a problem since the last update. I hope they’ll fix this, because it makes using the map very annoying. 

[Jane]

Thanks to all who voted and commented. I'm pleased to let you know that we recently rolled a new "map only" feature on IOS and Android. 

 

When you select Map features, you will now see a new option “Map Only”. This mode does not show Segments or Routes and enables you to explore new areas and get the most value out of our Global Heatmap and their Personal Heatmap!

Thanks again to all who contributed to this idea.

[FabianS]

Can we please have the ability to set our default map as well? I do not see the value of the route suggestions and get annoyed every time by them every time I enter the maps-tab. Especially with the so-so UX placement of the clean map view I would prefer. 

Something as simple as adding a checkbox for “make this my default” in the map features panel would do the trick.

[CARROT]

really need the ability to set map only as a default option!