Have you ever been in a new location wondering where the best roads and routes are? You know, the ones the locals ride? Heatmaps are a great way to home in on the most popular routes as they aggregate data from all of the users available, and highlight the most trafficked areas. Now, Ride with GPS is bringing that technology to their mobile and web apps.
Collecting data from only publicly shared trips from the global Ride with GPS community and respecting all user-created privacy zones, RwGPS states that user privacy is “treated with utmost care.” The heatmaps will be updated weekly, and include data compiled from the previous two years of users’ rides.
“Over the years, the heatmap has been our most requested feature. We’ve heard our users loud and clear and are excited to deliver this significant upgrade,” says Cullen King, Ride with GPS co-founder. “The heatmap takes our decade-plus of experience in creating the world’s most powerful route planner and expands its capacity, giving our users visual data about where cyclists ride so they can discover, plan, and ride great routes anywhere.”
