Things that Amuse Me: Strava Heatmap

[katew]

So, the heat map is scrollable and zoomable and all kinds of geeky happiness these days:

http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#14/-123 ... /blue/bike

If you want to know where people go, or get ideas for rides? This is the thing. I spent too much time looking at Thetis Lake Park and blinking back and forth between bike and run traces: we use the park very differently. Inexplicably, runners haven't found the Lighthouse trail yet.

But then I started zooming around the city and noticing splatters here and there. One at Western Speedway. More near downtown traffic lights. Hmmm. "What's that? Places cyclists have been stopped?" I wondered. Then I saw splatters at Pareto. And OBB. And Russ Hays. Yep. It's where we wait.

And then I spotted the splatters at Disco James Bay, Moka House Shoal Point, and the Cook St. Village. I am sorry to say that it appears that Sbux is out-performing Moka.

The cumulative layers of all our traces is hilarious and wonderful. I can't stop panning around. Look! We always leave Fairfield Plaza out the eastern driveway on Sunday mornings! Look! All those people at the Hub and Spoke left a trace! Look! There's a faint hint of the way those CX nutbars skirted the Sooke watershed!

I love this thing.

[Marcus]

Thanks for the laugh. I liked the red hot spot at cafe fantastico and the red trail going up Mt. Tomlie. Good to see that some riders go up Tolmie regularly.

[Josh.E]

That's really cool.

I can see the attempt up the logging road that degenerated into a dead end before we turned around and climbed around the watershed gate from the first time we did the sooke to shawnigan cx ride

[sylvan]

Starva heat maps are the best things ever for finding the good routes in new places.