apparently you NEVER reread my Post.

Hopefully others reading this find the info I provided on opting out of Strava's global heatmap feature and/or setting up privacy zones to be helpful.

I think I understand you post ... I see a lot of driveways show up when looking at the heat map. Those are users that don't use privacy zones making it too easy to see where they live/work.

You can set up as many privacy zones as you'd like in Strava. I have two around my current house, and still have one for the house I sold last year, and one for your mom's house (JK ... sorry, if that too much ... I'm just making myself laugh :D).

You can set the address and radius around the address, plus the software will make it a random circle around the address to avoid people calculating the center of the privacy circle as your house/office/other location. It's a powerful and helpful tool.

Yeah, you used to be able to zoom right onto someone's home - then people who used strava started seeing their bikes getting stolen from their garage.

Its amazing how many people I follow who don't have privacy zones. I know exactly where they live. Even with satellite view turned off, its not hard to figure out.

Strava got a lot more privacy conscious a couple of years ago when the got blasted for making it pretty obvious where US military installations are around the globe. Ya look in an empty desert in the middle east, and there is a hot spot from strava - ya kinda figure there are a lot of people doing workouts there...

that is helpful! yeah not being my driveways, I actually give a hoot about other peoples privacy. Friends following me on Strava I don't care that they know where I ride. And I'd still like to contribute to heatmaps, with out the Driveways, (private trails) showing up on heat maps.