Re:Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
by gaius on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:13AM
(#16258294)
Strava has a “privacy zone” but you have to update the centre of the zone yourself.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
by Humdeee on Monday January 29, 2018 @02:43PM
(#16260082)
It also has a setting for private and public workouts that can be set as default. Whether or not a private workout adds to global heatmap data, I am unsure...
Re:Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
by gaius on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @05:52AM
(#16272963)
It does not, nor will it count towards challenges, so if you’re into that (which I am so I can’t really fault anyone else) you are incentivised to be public
Re:Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
by JohnStudio on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @01:03PM
(#16275927)
I call this data scrapping .. two sets of data, and making correlations is my primary job function. I can't tell you how easy it is to take static data and make it dynamic with a series of algorithms that are well thought out, for correlation longitudinal goals.