✓ Route Filters

[paulsim1810]

Feature: For routes, add grouping and sorting functionality to the web an mobile app.

Over time I have built up a library of routes which I use. Scrolling through them is painful. I would like to be able to group/categorise routes and also sort them by various fields.

**Edit**

Expanding on the comments from my fellow users about this idea, fields to filter and sort by:

• Route name
• Created date
• Last modified date
• Start location
• Route type [Out and back | Point to point]
• Terrain [Flat | Rolling | Hilly | Mountains]
• Distance
• Ride Type

The grouping into folders is something I also had in mind but from an implementation point of view I get that tags, filtering and sorting is easier to deliver. Folders would be great though. 

I would like to add either destination or mid point and be able to filter/sort by these. Basically the café stop so, location of the café and café name. I have multiple routes to the same café:

• On a point to point route the destination is the end point. It could also have a mid point for a stop/café.
• On a an out and  back it could be the mid point or, on longer rides multiple points (multiple cafés.)

Looking at a one to many here, but a café stop option would be great.

Moderator's Edit: we are excited to announce that we launched Route Filters for Web on January 10, 2023. Now, you can search by keyword, filter by multiple sport types and more! We appreciate any and all feedback on this feature so feel free to continue to leave comments in this thread. However, if you have additional suggestions we invite you to submit a new idea. For more info on how to do this, please click here. 

[Cossie]

The recent addition of basic filter capability on the web version is a small step in the right direction but still far short of what's needed to properly organise routes. Folders and/or free-text tags are needed to make this manageable. 

[KHKoelln2107]

As I understand the search function only works, if you write comments in the "remarks-field" (german: Bemerkung:), while the route shall be stored. This is the only content you can search for.
To test this I add some text into the remark-field (place distance number) . Result after searching for a substring of the entered text: searching since 20 min. No other routes will be shown. the cursor ist busy! 😞

Thanks for such an solution!!!

Why it´s not possible to search for the route-name? All my entered routes has structured names, following the same matrix.

The filter-button is a small function ; and it´s useful. But the search-button is much more important and should search for all items of an stored. 
If it is version 1.0 we should wait for version 17.4 ; hopefully!!

[Soren]

As some of you have already noticed, we are excited to announce that we launched Route Filters for Web yesterday. Gone are the days of viewing a simple list of routes - now, you can search by keyword, filter by multiple sport types and more! We appreciate any and all feedback on this feature and invite you to submit a new idea if you have additional suggestions.

[al_la]

KHKoelln2107 - As you can see in my screenshot, I'm able to search by partial route name on My Routes on the web version of Strava.  Maybe they're still indexing all the route names and it'll work for you soon. 

Cossie- Those of you that are requesting folders and such can accomplish something similar simply by typing in the name of the "folder"/hashtag in the route names of the routes in the folder, that way when you search them for by route name, it'll show all of those with that "folder"/hashtag. 

[KHKoelln2107]

al_la - Hi and thanks for your info. Unfortunately this doesn`t work for me. First pic you can see a stored route. And searching for the word "Heuberg" show no result. It doesnt matter, if the group ("Radfahren") is marked or not. I try to mark no group and I marked all groups. Same result

[VikK]

I just tried it and it works for me on route name. I then edited one of my routes to add something unique in the comment and then searched for that, it also worked immediately.

Now I can comment "art" in my Strava art routes and find them quickly. 

[al_la]

KHKoelln2107 - replace the underscores "_" with spaces " " and it'll solve your problem.  Because you used underscore, it indexed it as one long word.

[KHKoelln2107]

Hi al_la, 
I think the real reason is, that the system is only able to search for words which are located at the beginning of the string. Searching for "John" in "JohnDoe" will work. Searching for "Doe" will not deliver an result. 

[al_la]

KHKoelln2107 - yes, indexing for whole words separated by spaces allows them to provide a fast search.  If they were to provide a full text middle of the word search, it would slow down their database and system considerably.  Simple solution is to replace underscore with spaces in your case.

[jsavage]

Soren/Strava,

This is indeed a great improvement. Thank you!!! Love that you & the team are listening to customer feedback.

A few small suggestions to turbo charge this even more:

1. It would be great to "Sort" the "My Routes" page alphabetically. I can't tell what the current sort is. It doesn't seem to be alphabetic or by most recent changes (maybe by "date created?"). I would greatly prefer alphabetic because then I can manually store my routes in order of my personal preference by prefixing them with "A", then "B", then "C" (or 1, 2, 3) and then all the routes will default to displaying/organizing the way I'd like them too. Seems like a small change that would go a long ways.

2. These changes enable much better organization of routes. But now I want to rename many of my routes. It would be great if there was a "shortcut" to just "renaming" the route, i.e. without having to load the full route and then save. This is more of an efficiency gain and less of a true blocker. But feels like this would be more user friendly.

Apologies if I got any of this wrong. Hope this feedback is useful! Cheering you on!

Jesse

[jsavage]

Also ... I may have hit a bug or "rate limit". I was going through the flow of: 1) Go to Routes page, 2) Filter to "Maryland" 3) Edit route, 4) Click save 5) Rename route 6) repeat. Now on the Routes page it seems to be "hanging" with a spinning wheel (see screenshot). I've tried to refresh the page. Or go to another page and then return with no success. Help!

[KHKoelln2107]

al_la -> thanks for your answer. But it´s hard for me to believe in. I`m a software-developer since 40 years and I developed a lot of client-server, cloud-based, app`s or web-applications. Indexing will be automaticly done by the database-server. And indexing many words will use more time than indexing one word. A wildchar-search , and that`s what I need, is, from my point of view, state of the art. It´s only a small change how the SQL-statement will be send to the server.
A change of more then 300 routes to replace the underscore by spaces is unimpossible. Cause this would be only the first (large) step. I developed a system for my racing team to select routes for the training. These names must be the same in STRAVA then in my app. 
For me the search function is a fault! Please have a look to the post of -> jsavage. I made the same experience. And why STRAVA is not able to deliver the same function than VELOVIEWER does based on STRAVA-data?

Enjoy a nice weekend!

[VikK]

I agree with @KHKoelln2107 you should be able to partial search and not just from the beginning of words. I have a route that's the shape of a tiger, called 'Year of the tiger' if I type iger then I would want that to appear but it doesn't. 

It's still a massive improvement over no search.

[Amritt]

Thank you for the update....at least some response..

have been having a first look, and the search seems to work ok so far, as others have noted some issues, i'll have to test a little more.
I have noted that the filter by elevation and distance is a bit limited - seems I can only filter between 0 - 759m elevation - seems arbitrary and unhelpful when some of my routes are over 3000m. similar with distance, 0-82km...effectively the filters are useless.

putting higher numbers would be better, given there are sliders to adjust

[Amritt]

PS - if the filters dont generate any answers it shows all your routes rather than saying 'none found' or similar