The great thing with a heatmap is that superficially at least, it conveys its meaning very intuitively. So STRAVAcyclists in Richmond Park on these routes will comprise those commuting AND those training by doing laps or hill reps, whereas the RwGPS user base is perhaps instead more focussed around those who have planned routes rather than just cycling a lot over known segments. Why So? The response was that the nature of the user base likely helps determine the kind of heat produced. I had another go and pointed out to RwGPS that the following image oof their heatmap shows my circled highlights of two of THE MOST popular STRAVA segments in the WORLD and yet the RwGPS heatmap doesn’t have them as super-hot. Here are a couple of screenshots from the mobile app which much more clearly show the look-and-feel of the in-ride experience. Contrast that thought again with the STRAVA map, above, then I hope you’d agree that the STRAVA heatmap is somewhat distracting and would perhaps not be that helpful as you progress on your ride. So the heat would be of secondary importance to you. If you are riding along, using their app, then chances are you would normally be paying little attention to the HEAT and perhaps only want to consider it occasionally when re-routing away from your original plan. RwGPS would perhaps respond further to say that they are adding LIVEHEATMAP functionality to do a job of aiding navigation.
Indeed RwGPS claim that a notable chunk of their users plan routes in RwGPS and cross-reference the STRAVA heatmap as they plan. Perhaps compare that with a STRAVA heatmap ( paid-for, Subscriber feature) which I think you might agree looks prettier and the heat is more obvious, although you could argue that the STRAVA route shown here gets somewhat lost. By means of an explanation, the route I’m planning is shown with a striking red colour, whereas the other, more subtle, red and blue lines represent the heat/relative usage of the surrounding roads. If you plan a route on the web you will see something similar to this image where the HEATMAP layer is displayed along with the other selected layers BASIC MAP, BIKE PATHS, TERRAIN & HEATMAP. As of today, the great thing with the new RwGPS features is that you will be able to see the live HEAT info on the app as you PLAN and AS YOU RIDE. Yeah but Strava does heatmaps, right? Garmin does popularity routing, right? The impending announcement is that you will now be able to d isplay the heatmap that was previously used to create & calculate your routes that followed popular roads. Some of you might remember that R wGPS introduced popularity routing a couple of months back. Ride with GPS (RwGPS) have just announced some much-longed-for features for their sizeable base of users, we’re talking HEATMAPs.
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