Just curious and if not it doesn’t hurt my opinion of the app but I’ve been dreading January a little bit because I’m assuming my yearly map view will reset. I definitely catch myself just staring and zooming around the yearly map every so often because I think it’s super fascinating to be able to basically see my life represented on a map. Honestly I think it’s improved my memory capacity and my appreciation for trips/unique things I’ve done by being able to trace it later.
Obviously a way low priority request because you’ve probably got a million things to work on, but I think it would be such a cool and motivating feature to have 2 or 5 or whatever years overlayed as an option.
Chiming in here, but a lot of inspiration could be stolen from Strava’s heat map if this was implemented. Like a subtle glow over areas you’ve visited with a greater intensity the more you’ve crossed the same path.
Strava locks theirs behind a paywall, but it’s a very exciting feature, when I had a free trial I spent a long time perusing it and reflecting on my life. Would be cool to have something that wasn’t just for running and biking, but your whole life.
@twilldre I’d love an “all time” map too! And it’ll almost certainly come to the new Arc Editor app.
Old Arc Timeline app has memory and CPU use issues with its maps. Loading a yearly view used to be almost impossible on older iPhones. Arc Timeline actually creates “simplified” versions of all the data for the monthly and yearly views, just so it can be all loaded into memory and put on the map without the app crashing.
But I’m pretty sure that I’ll be able to manage that better in Arc Editor. Newer technologies, newer hardware, and fresh code with more flexibility. So yeah, I’m definitely keen to add it to Arc Editor!
I don’t know if you saw the news, but hilariously, Strava are suing Garmin at the moment, with one of the complaints being something to do with their “patented” heat maps! Which is of course absurd - that style of heat maps has existed for longer than Strava, so they should never have been granted a patent in the first place.
Anyway, silly industry trivia aside, yeah heat maps is another thing I want to get in in Arc Editor. And also “fog of world” style views. The new Places tab is going to be where that will happen I think.
That does seem like something Strava would do. They tried patented dividing your heart rate by five so I’m not surprised.
I’m very excited to hear this. I have so many ideas for making the places tab excel. I’ll have to turn in some feature requests. I’m a big fan of places and locations.
Strava really do seem to be self defeating with these legal things. All they end up doing is pissing off large portions of their customer base. And going after Garmin, one of their most important partners? Eek.
Anyway I imagine it’ll amount to nothing in the end. There’s no way they’re going to be able to block anyone from using heat maps.
Yeah the Places tab is where I’m probably most excited to add new features. I can’t get to it yet, because I have to nail down all the basics first, so that the app is ready for most people to migrate over from old Arc Timeline. But once that’s done I really want to go to town with new features in the Places tab!
Some fun screenshots of the various arc apps with some Polarsteps snuck in. This is basically almost a heat map already! Arc Editor has not the best map ever, it won’t even load the city name for some reason. Polarsteps has those ugly little nodes everywhere. Timeline comes closest to the heatmap effect though I didn’t run enough last year to have a meaningful Strava comparison.
(For anyone who worries about my safety posting these on the internet, I have now migrated to other hemispheres with the changing of the weather, and these maps surely aren’t accurate enough to kidnap me )
Yeah I need to add a map settings view, so we can select different map styles. It’s also a newer version of the Mapbox SDK, which uses their newer maps engine, which has some improvements but also in some cases what feels like worse presentation (eg city names not loading at zooms levels it feels like they should).
Thats fair. Thankfully you have excellent communication and rate of development. So when we see something wrong we can brush it off and have faith that you’ll fix it! As opposed to old and established apps which will have the same problems for years.
I didn’t run enough last year to have a meaningful Strava comparison.
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