Strava Heatmap shows worldwide activity on a single day

I am going through this post and thinking of it’s theme and trying to understand what is this post about. At last I can have found something from this post which feels pretty good.

No wonder France struggles to find a Tour winner, no one there rides bikes

Its funny how Singapore comes alive at 5am. You UK testers have another hour in bed

Kudos to the lone rider in Mongolia.

Timezone-wise - I think they have collected data for a day centered somewhere in the USA, but then shown all "1pm rides" on the map at the same time.

Look at the Dunwich Dynamo - there's a massive track starting at midnight to 6am on Saturday - this is obviously midnight to 6am on *Sunday* UK time.

So a bit of a bug, but at least it shows the entire Dynamo

Up and down the Yarra Boulevard in Melbourne, still popular I see.

I'm assuming (or maybe I missed it) that all the time zones are synchronised?

This is really, really cool! Almost more interesting than the places that see a lot of use are the places that don't. Lincolnshire for instance...

Looks like there was a fair size group on the Dunwich Dynamo route in the night too:
http://app.strava.com/saturday-heatmap#0|3|10|52.11740|1.08374

It's not just us, the dutch and belgians seem pretty strava-mad too.

though france seems almost pitch-black! In fact i wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the strava traffic on the Alp etc was from visitors, especially brits.

My ride oxford-silverstone is in there, too, wrong turn and all.

It looks great! Can we see this done for any times of the day or days if the week too. I think you would see a better picture and far different results on different days. Why July 20th too? Bit random!

Sunday 4 August might have been enlightening!

It's the evening of Dunwich Dynamo - roll forward to 11pm-Midnight and see the track heading for the Suffolk Coast (from London) Cool!

botox, I think you're on to something but its only part of the information. Remember this is one section of a cycling community who are hooked on Strava (inc. me) and so it gives a distorted view of cycling. There are a huge number of cyclists who don't care about data and oftentimes they will be the ones that need the most looking after on the road. Box Hill and Alpe d'Huez dont need road improvements ( in this context) though they are very populated by cyclists.

Cool data show though. If it was the Aug 4th surrey would be a floodlight.

I have been suggesting to friends that this would be a great way of determining the focus of transport planning for cyclists - if this was passed onto the DfT or TFL it could be a way on ensuring the popular routes are given a focus for cycle infrastructure investment.

Obviously you'd want a working week for that map - but I wonder if anyone at TFL of the DfT have looked at this with any great thought.

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looks like you can see part of the route from the wiggle peak district punisher sportive. very cool

cripes...we in the UK are mental for a bit of strava.

Strava appears to be more popular in the UK than elsewhere...

Wonder what was going on in texas in the middle of the night

Very clever.
9am-10am and the UK is by far the shining light!

Sweet!

Was really hoping to see a lone rider in North Korea.