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Have you ever wished you could see a map of all the roads, trails, and paths you’ve ridden over time? Your Personal Heatmap is an individualized view of all the ground you’ve covered on past trips. Whether you want to find your way back to a favorite camp spot, revisit a particularly memorable road, or avoid an unfriendly neighborhood dog, your Personal Heatmap can help you plan future excursions by showing you where you’ve already been.

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Premium members can enable the Personal Heatmap layer when viewing a route or activity, as well as while planning a route in the Route Planner. You can also check out our Global Heatmap to view the frequency of routes traveled by all public Ride with GPS users. 

 

Personal Heatmaps on Web

Enable your Personal Heatmaps on a Route or Activity

To view or hide your Personal Heatmaps overlay, click Heatmaps in the upper right corner of the activity or route page, and click to enable Personal Activities and/or Personal Routes from the drop-down menu.
Your Personal Activities heatmap will appear along the map in purple tones and your Personal Routes heatmap will appear on the map in green tones. A bolder line indicates a heavier heatmap when viewing the Personal Activities heatmap, meaning that you’ve traveled along those roads or trails more frequently.

Personal Heatmaps in the Route Planner

To view or hide your Personal Heatmaps in the route planner, click on the Heatmaps menu in the upper right corner of the Route Planner map and click to enable Personal Activities and/or Personal Routes from the drop-down menu.  

Your personal activities heatmap will appear on the map in purple and the personal routes heatmap will appear in green, just as it does when viewing the heatmaps on a route or activity.

Personal Heatmaps on Mobile

To enable/disable your Personal Heatmap overlays in the mobile app, click the Map Options icon in the lower left corner of any map view screen on the app, and select Personal Rides and/or Personal Routes from the options that appear.  

 

 

FAQs

  • Who can view my Personal Heatmap?
    • Your Personal Heatmap is private to you only and made available with a Premium subscription. It cannot be shared.
  • How are my activities counted towards my Personal Heatmap?
    • This overlay is created from your personal activity history, including private activities. However, if any of your trips, or portions of them have been excluded from your ride or profile metrics (for example, the ferry ride portion), these will not be recorded on your heatmap. For more on this, check out Exclude From Metrics and Adding Gear. Additionally, manually logged activities (no GPS recording) will not be included in your heatmap.
  • Are activities through my privacy zones added to my Personal Heatmap?
    • Portions of your trip that begin and end in your established privacy zones will not be added to your Personal Heatmap. However, if you pass through a privacy zone in the middle of a trip, this will be included.
  • How often is my Personal Heatmap updated?
    • Any time you add or edit an activity on your account, this is reflected automatically in your Personal Heatmap.