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  • February 16, 2024
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Would it be possible to introduce a time filter to heatmaps so that trails that fall out of favour fade out?

I live in an area surrounded by forests and use the heatmap facility extensively to find new routes to run / cycle off the main fire trails. However, due to forestry work over recent months and years and the inaccessibility of some routes due to tree growth, this has become an increasingly unreliable way to plan a run - routes that were popular can now no-longer be navigated.

I would propose at least a 12-month rolling filter (a bit like the rolling 90-days for local legend) to ensure that all seasons are captured.

Best answer by nicky11

Hey @nicrennet thanks for writing in here. Totally appreciate the use case (and would like to have this capability myself too!) The heatmap currently captures the trailing 13 months, but we agree that more specific filtering would be very helpful. We have a number of significant updates to our heatmap feature-set planned for this year and will take this suggestion into our planning. Please let me know if you have any other needs the heatmaps are not currently meeting! 

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  • February 16, 2024

Hey @nicrennet thanks for writing in here. Totally appreciate the use case (and would like to have this capability myself too!) The heatmap currently captures the trailing 13 months, but we agree that more specific filtering would be very helpful. We have a number of significant updates to our heatmap feature-set planned for this year and will take this suggestion into our planning. Please let me know if you have any other needs the heatmaps are not currently meeting! 


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  • March 2, 2024

For example currently - wathcing todays track of skating where people has been recenlty is one tool to help see what parts of lakes have what quality. Filtering global heatmap for a range (in my case now: todays) would be a useful tool


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  • Strava
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  • March 4, 2024

Hi @p1ersson thanks for this suggestion. We're working on some tools that will help with this exact use case. Stay tuned for more updates in the next few months! Appreciate you taking the time to write in! 


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  • May 9, 2024

It would be immensely helpful to be able to filter out the most popular 1, 3, 7, X days across a given road or trail to avoid being biased toward building routes that are popular for specific events (e.g., races), but not recreational activities.

Specifically, bike races or bike tours often occur with closed roads and police blocking intersections, but it would be awesome to be able to filter the heat map map in a way that removes heat from such activities.

Specifically around New York City, one can’t ride across the Tappan Zee Bridge but the layperson wouldn’t know that based on looking at the cycling data of the heatmap (since they close it down to vehicles for the five boro bike tour). Beyond inconveniences like that, there’s arguably some safety concern of users, creating routes on open trafficked roads that were popular at times without vehicle traffic.

On the same vein time of day filtering could be useful, particularly from a safety standpoint for cycling.


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  • Strava
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  • May 9, 2024

Hi @meb thanks for the message. We are working on some additional heatmap filtering tools that should help you solve the problems and get the information you're looking for here. Stay tuned for some updates coming to the web heatmap in the next few months. Appreciate you taking the time to write in! 


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  • May 9, 2024

thanks Nicky! looking forward to it. appreciate all  your work making strava great


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  • May 9, 2024

@meb thank you - looking forward to hearing how you like the coming updates


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  • August 18, 2024

Will there be an option to view gloabal heatmap data that is older than 13 months like was previously available? This is very beneficial for route building in areas that are not heavily traveled. An option to filter the timeframe like is available for the personal heat maps would be a very valuable tool for 


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  • February 22, 2025

Up voting this but only if there is an ption for ALL time included. Would be best if the default option was all time and you could amend. Especially for OFFLINE use when trying to find random unplanned trails in very remote areas like patagonia. This would be the MOST useful feature and the limited 13 months is hugely prohibitive of real true adventure finding in areas there is no marked trail on any mapping apps but a strava line that some previous adventurer has followed is the only way to go. How do I also vote up strava making heatmap data opensource and stop hogging this incredibly valuable resource. It is literally the only reason I might be drawn back to the platform after the horrendously pointless incessant release of pointless and anoying new features just to keep the army of designers and developers busy with SOMETHING to do. Go back to the strava heyday. It was a MUCH more useful app. AI is such an embarassment. And so many utterly pointless UI updates


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