Ride with GPS adds Heatmap - Everything You Need to Know
A leader in gravel route creation, Ride with GPS further transforms the way that cyclists discover dirt, plan routes and navigate with the introduction of a global heatmap that is fully compatible with their best-in-class web and mobile route planners and mobile navigation system.
The Ride with GPS Heatmap aggregates data from the past two years of publicly-recorded trips from their global community of millions and highlights them on a map so that users can see the “heat” generated from other cyclists. The Ride with GPS Heatmap is starting off strong and continually growing, with weekly updates. Users' privacy is treated with utmost care; heatmap data only includes publicly-logged trips from public users, and respects all user-created privacy zones.
"Over the years, the heatmap has been our most requested feature. We've heard our users loud and clear and are excited to deliver this significant upgrade," says Cullen King, Ride with GPS co-founder. “The heatmap takes our decade-plus of experience in creating the world's most powerful route planner and expands its capacity, giving our users visual data about where cyclists ride so they can discover, plan, and ride great routes anywhere.”
The heatmap is viewable on its own, but designed especially with route creation and navigation in mind. It overlays seamlessly onto the web and mobile route planners and also in the mobile app’s ride recording screen. With everything in one place, there is no need to check back and forth between a heatmap and route planner as users create or navigate routes. With the Ride with GPS Heatmap, cyclists can view the heatmap alongside an interactive elevation profile, while splitting and combining segments, autotracing rides into routes, color-coding segments, adding POIs and custom cues, and more.
KEY FEATURES
Mobile Access The heatmap is fully integrated into the Ride with GPS iOS and Android mobile apps, so that it is accessible in the palm of your hand.
Route Planner Integration The heatmap was designed with route planning in mind. It overlays in the web and mobile route planners for uninterrupted ease of use.
Recording Screen Overlay The heatmap is viewable as an overlay in the ride recording screen of our iOS and Android mobile apps for all Ride with GPS members.
User Privacy Considerations Only publicly-logged rides from public users are included. All user-created privacy zones are respected and not included in the ride data, and start & end points of trips are also automatically designated as privacy zones. Users may opt-out at any time through their privacy settings.
Data-Driven The heatmap was developed using the two most recent years of data from the publicly-logged trips of our users.
Weekly Updates Updates to the heatmap will be made weekly so that the data included is continually growing and accurate.
Publicly Viewable The Ride with GPS Heatmap is publicly viewable at ridewithgps.com/heatmap. A Ride with GPS account is not needed to view the heatmap.
User Availability The heatmap is viewable to the general public, accessible to all Ride with GPS members in the mobile app recording screen, and available as an overlay in the mobile route planner for Basic members and in the web route planner for Premium members.
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