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I think in going to pay for Summit safety so my wife will know where I am. Unless some one wants to sugest another way of doing this
If I pay for this can I download gpx from other users for route planning. Strava say you need summit. Is that any part of summit?
You can get a GPX of many (all?) activities* without needing Summit but it might be a bit more involved than the "official" way. Assuming desktop here.
Select your activity
Click on the three dots at the left
Choose "Create Route" - this takes you to Route Builder
Click Save and give it a name.
Now it's "yours" and you can download the GPX file.
*I can certainly do it of activities of people I follow.
I have looked for all options and there used to be a free program that did it. Now it doesn't work. I now pay for Summit at about £50 a year.
I do not use any of the other Summit features other than the Download GPX off peoples routes.
grannyjone
I understand that you need Summit as you describe. But I had a vague memory that you only needed safety to do this
Hmmm
Whitestone that worked.
But I'm not sure this works with people I don't follow. Or is that just privacy settings
I think in going to pay for Summit safety so my wife will know where I am. Unless some one wants to suggest another way of doing this
Google Location Sharing. It's free. As with Strava, it relies on you having a Data signal so there can be "blank spots" when you get further away from civilization.
There are Chrome Add-ons that let you download a GPX file from any Strava activity, without paying premium.
"strava to gpx" still works.
Damn I've paid Summit 12 months membership now and didn't realise you could still download GPX for free
Cheers folks
Google sharing set up. I'll play setting with gpx ideas
Google location sharing? Does it require data/reception as Summit Beacon does?
Cheers!
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Life360 is free and shares as long as you leave the permission.
Glympse, also free, shares for a limited time.
As a family we use life360.
When meeting up for a beer or bike ride we use Glympse.
I believe summit is very battery intensive.
Google Location Sharing. It’s free.
We use this, I'm on Android and my partner on iOS. Her location updating is quite sporadic and sometimes it doesn't for a day (all permissions etc.. are setup correctly) so that's something to consider and YMMV.
I've had a garmin for years and turns out that I have the equivalent of strava beacon via the Connect app, just sends an email with a link to a live track when I start.
Does it require data/reception as Summit Beacon does?
Yes.
Madbillmcmad and others
This is more complicated than I thought.
The Google one shows you where your phone is if it has signal. Presumably the benefit of the Strava one is you can see the ride up to the point where the phone lost signal. That would be massively More useful
I’ve only got the safety an analys bit of summit £19 a year and I can download gpx easily.
Does it require data/reception as Summit Beacon does?
Yes.
If your riding anywhere without a signal you might need a ‘Spot’.
I’m planning on going this route as the mountains I will be riding have no signal 🙁
Sorry another thought
Route planning on Strava. What's the best way to browse for routes. Do you start by searching for segments in the area you are interested in? Or can you search routes in some way?
There isn't (at least in the free version) a way to search for routes. The best I've found is to find a segment you're interested in then look at the leaderboard and click on the segment time - that takes you to the route that person did on that day. It may or may not be a route that you want to do.
Thanks Whitestone thats what once been found
I might see if paying brings anything extra