How do people usually handle a single location with lots of activities

Less support question and more just curiosity, but for work I pretty frequently am at a single location for an entire day, but end up walking a few miles between traveling between different areas of the same building or location. I’ll attach pictures of what I mean, but just wondering if most people merge, delete, or leave it as is.

I’m guessing there’s no real answer.

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I like merging them by marking these short walks as stationary. The only exception is if Google Places have separate names for different parts of the building.

Personally I most often end up adding new private places for each building or room within. Like if it’s an airport then I add places (or use existing Google Places if available) for each gate, for the shops, immigration, baggage claim, etc.

So my airport timeline might be: Taxi Drop-off Area → Check-in Area → Immigration → Lounge → Gate 123, with walking items between.

I sometimes also do like @trackerminerfs does - converting some walking to stationary, so that it’ll merge together into a single visit. But because that loses detail I’d often rather keep, I do it less commonly. But sometimes I really do want it as a single visit, so there’s no way around it other than converting those walking bits to stationary.

We do have a couple of issues filed for potentially improving this stuff:

  • BIG-319 for “Hierarchical places: places inside places”
  • BIG-174 for “Support multi-centre Place models”