Feedback: Heatmap changes

[GuyBeels]

What have you done to Heatmaps?  I do not care about businesses, or where other people have run, walked, or biked, and the new color selection interface does not allow basemap changes from the same interface (as it should).  Also, as I zoom out, the once-useful aggregation of workouts (showing a circle and number at scales where the actual paths get tiny and useless) is now gone.  Writing this as a cartographer, recent changes are not an improvement.  Is there a way to recover the old display mode?

[nicky]

Hey everyone. Thanks for the additional context and feedback. Really appreciate it! We'll look into it! 

[Trevvy]

Please do look into and re-instate this as the Heatmaps with clusters is the only reason (and i suspect many others) subscribe. Without this i will not renew.

[BjornarSoreng]

They added photos to the heatmap options today. But the activity clusters are still missing. Hope they add it back on soon.

[dslomian]

Pictures are ok for those, who actually take them, I just had a look and I only have about 15, that's not good enough, but they said they are working on something better than we had before, so fingers crossed, I'm looking forward to be able to see where I ran when the map is zoomed out...

[nicky]

UPDATE FROM STRAVA

Hello everyone. Thanks for writing in. Nick from the Strava Web team here. We really appreciate you taking the time to write up this feedback! We took out the clusters because we were not satisfied with their ability to get us to the activities we were looking for and have begun the process of replacing them with something better. If you take a look at your Personal Heatmap today, you should see the option to use clusters of photos from activities as a means of getting back to the original activities that underly the heatmap. This is the first in a planned series of updates to replace the clusters with something more useful. We know it's not perfect yet. Please let us know how this looks! Again, really appreciate the feedback and are reading every comment.  

[tono1020]

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[uzaks]

Nick: The new photos feature is OK but we still want the clusters back! Thank you! 

[jrgolding]

Hi Nicky. The orange dots were way better, this was one of the great features of Strava premium and I'm really disappointed that it's gone. I loved seeing the areas I've covered - that's all it needs to show. While I appreciate the effort that goes in to it I think the point of the heat map has been missed - it's not a tool to find activities or view photos, it's a tool to visualise coverage. The orange dots worked brilliantly. The new one has either tiny specs to show the actual routes taken, or massive photos that don't cover an area accurately or adequately - I assume they've been made bigger so you can see the content of the photo (which anyone looking at a heat map is not there to look at). Please re-instate, it wasn't broken! 

[Trevvy]

No good if you don’t take photos and i find they obscure other parts of the Heatmap. Can they be turned off when required? In any case, the clusters were far more useful so lets have them back.

[uzaks]

Agreed.