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?

[GuyBeels]

I suspect that this thread is one of many in the "community" that is meant to allow us all just to talk to each other.  Though it would be nice, it may be unrealistic to assume that anyone within Strava corporate reads these with the intent of gathering ideas for improvement of the user experience.  (Too bad, since that would be "agile" and "hip".)  If they ever do come back with activity clusters, we likely won't hear about it in this forum, it will just be presented out of the blue as a "new and improved" Heatmap experience.  That said, it does mystify me that they don't bring back the activity clusters, since they obviously already have the code.  But maybe the application architecture is such a mass of spaghetti that re-inserting this is a lost cause fraught with danger to the code base.  I dunno. 

[uzaks]

Yes, so, I've just created this topic under the new idea suggestions, please send kudos/support there: https://communityhub.strava.com/t5/ideas/add-back-the-activity-clusters-to-heatmaps/idi-p/27182

The more the kudos/support there, the more likely and sooner it will be implemented.

[bpower14]

Could not agree more - Please bring back the aggregation (where the route lines become circles as you zoom out)! 

50% of the reason I use heatmap is to see where I've been in a city / area (new version still does this great). But the other 50% is, I love seeing where I've run across Canada + the US, and the entire world (i.e., the fitness/activity version of a "world map travel peg board"), and the new heatmap is now totally useless at this! 

[uzaks]

I've just created this topic under the new idea suggestions, please send kudos/support there: https://communityhub.strava.com/t5/ideas/add-back-the-activity-clusters-to-heatmaps/idi-p/27182

The more the kudos/support there, the more likely and sooner it will be implemented.

[clauol]

Please bring back the old Heatmaps with Activity Clusters!

[uzaks]

Agreed and I've just created this topic under the new idea suggestions, please send kudos/support there: https://communityhub.strava.com/t5/ideas/add-back-the-activity-clusters-to-heatmaps/idi-p/27182

The more the kudos/support there, the more likely and sooner it will be implemented.

[rleaver]

My vote to re-instate activity clusters as well. Feels like a downgrade not to have them.

[uzaks]

Please vote here too:  I've just created this topic under the new idea suggestions, please send kudos/support/vote there: https://communityhub.strava.com/t5/ideas/add-back-the-activity-clusters-to-heatmaps/idi-p/27182

The more the kudos/support there, the more likely and sooner it will be implemented.

[hsub0x]

Hello! I do enjoy the new look and feel of the Personal Heatmaps, but really miss the filters by year. Each year, I would take a screenshot at the end of the year for my personal heatmap as a memento for that year's cycling, but with the new heatmap, having to select a custom date range is just enough friction to be really annoying. Also, the date range picker was acting wonky on my browser when I used it a few weeks ago. Haven't tried it again since. Anyway, that year filter was a great feature that I am sad to see gone in the new personal heatmap.

[uzaks]

I also agree with this. In the meantime I've just created this topic under the new idea suggestions, please send kudos/support here: https://communityhub.strava.com/t5/ideas/add-back-the-activity-clusters-to-heatmaps/idi-p/27182

The more the kudos/support there, the more likely and sooner it will be implemented.