I think CityStrides “per activity” privacy mimicks Strava or Garmin’s privacy setting. But is there not a way to make my CityStrides default to private (avoid lifemap updates) while retaining public visibility in Strava?
Then I’d switch them on one-by-one in CityStrides, manually?
Yeah, “per activity” takes the privacy setting in your tracking service.
You will appear in all lists and leaderboards. Each activity will default to the privacy setting in your tracking service. You can change an activity’s privacy setting in CityStrides by editing it.
Let me know if I’m misunderstanding. It sounds like you want your activities to be public in Strava and private in CityStrides. You should be able to accomplish this in Privacy Settings by setting yourself to “Just Me”.
I do not want my life map private. I just don’t want my 4 daily dog walks or quick jogs around my house showing up on my life map. So I want my CityStrides to have a per activity default to private, but then I’ll switch them “on” one by one, if they are real or new runs I want to appear on my lifemap. (All while leaving my Strava entirely public.)
This would be a nice feature for me. The group I’m often with doesn’t explore, just runs the same few variations every single weekend. I only get to do new streets when I’m by myself.
Variation: an option to only show an activity on the life-map if it caused a new node to be completed and/or a new street to be completed? There would still be some thicker lines but not nearly as unreadable.
thanks,
~ J.
Unfortunately I’d like to map many of my hikes or activities (I do a lot of alley mapping) that have no nodes. Or cities that aren’t in CityStrides yet. So I wouldn’t want it to be automated. But simply a checkbox for each activity that would say “add to lifemap”, which is turned off by default, would work perfectly.
This topic could probably better named: “Option to exclude activity from Lifemap” or something.
Sounds like it could be both… what I suggested wouldn’t cause your hikes to be added since they wouldn’t cause any streets/nodes to be completed and you could still turn the desired efforts on manually, if James was willing to provide both options. I could live with what you suggested for going forward, but man it would take a while to go backwards and clean up the thousands of existing entries down to non-repeats vs if James could set them all private and then just include the ones that cause progress, where possible, just leaving us a bit of manual work.
Clarification: users would have the option to pick one/both, not be forced into both, so if you didn’t want a dog walk in a new area to automatically add to your lifemap even if it did complete something new, you wouldn’t be forced into it. I only covered your no-progress scenario above.