Location different now

It has nothing to do with the mobile app. Activities are named by the Garmin Connect cloud service. Every now and then Garmin changes something in the naming algorithm or data, which results in a change in automatic naming.

Yes me to...
Always used to say, "Ynysddu" a village close to mine, then activity.
It now reads as the further away major town, "Caerphilly."
The distance has gone from one mile, to about 6 or 7 miles away.
Would be nice to have my actual location,
so I don't have to edit the titles of my activities.

Mine is doing the same thing—my activities used to be named for the town I run in, but now it says the county instead. Odd!

Yes there's a few threads on here I'm in UK in a fair sized market town - used to get my runs named after the Town - now I get the borough (Council Area) which is no use to man nor beast - it's not a geographic area but an administrative area - irritating

Thank you for the discussion on this topic, there have recently been changes to the data source that is used when automatically naming the activity based on location.

These changes should allow for a more accurate location for the name of the activity.

We are interested in any examples where users are seeing a less accurate location in the name.

If you are seeing this, can you provide a link to an activity, and what you would expect the location name to be.

Thanks

Im not sure if I added the link to my run correctly but since 24th February all my runs have said “Sydney running”.....a city with a 50km radius.....as opposed to previously being suburb specific...suburbs being about 5km wide. And like I said this is widespread across the running community pages I am on.

It seems universally that the location is now much less accurate

Well, less precise, but not necessarily less true. Running around the Sydney Opera House, Royal Botanic Garden, Lady Macquarie's Chair and Art Gallery NSW used to somehow cause Garmin Connect to automatically name my runs “Australia Square Running” and “Queen Victoria Building Running”, even though I was nowhere near either landmark. Now the same routes or courses are automatically named “Sydney Running”, which happens to be more true/correct; in fact, the landmarks I actually run around are in the “suburb” of Sydney NSW (postcode 2000).



Ergo, no, factually the location is not universally now much less accurate.

There are a number of threads on running pages I’m part of discussing this

Not that I can see from ">your recent participation in this forum">your recent participation in this forum – which is ironic, given we're talking about information accuracy, and pages are as logically different to forums as suburbs are to cities – but I'll take your word for it.

It seems universally that the location is now much less accurate

In my case it is the exact opposite.

Garmin-Joey is there any feedback from garmin on this - it would appear that it works better for some locations and worse for others For me in the UK It doesn't make much sense. It has gone from giving me a geographic location (my town} to giving me a local government administrative area which is less accurate as it covers several towns and also fairly meaningless and would not appear on a map of the area