Just recently the automated names created for GPS activities seem to have changed - for years my runs from home have been titled with the name of the town that I live in. Suddenly they have changed to a title which relates to a local council administrative area rather than a geographic location. This is not a major problem just wondered if anyone else had noticed this and whether it's intentional or something that's changed either with the recent Garmin updates (or with the underlying map provider's data)
My most recent runs are now automatically named Sydney Running, when for ages my previous runs along the same route were automatically named Australia Square Running most of the time (even though I didn't go into, past or even near the landmark of Australia Square).
since about one week, I have to same issue. I live in Poland in a small village and names of activities have changed. These are related now to administrative community, not to every single small village or city.
P.S. I use Samsung A6 phone - and weather widget has changed in the same way. (change of weather supplier: AccuWeather --> Weather Channel)
If you look under GC Account Settings, Display Preferences there is a new option in the Activity Name option. So I think they have been playing in this area.
TrippyZ yes I see - you may be right I've changed mine to show location and device activity name - I expect that will still show the same location but you never know
Yes, same thing here in Brisbane. Up until 22nd Feb activities showed with suburb names. All activities since then just show "Brisbane" as the location. Very disappointing, as the new behaviour is almost useless -- Brisbane is a large city. And I can't see any way of changing back to the old behaviour.
I've just sent email to Garmin Support to ask them to look into this problem.
@Arturo: If it's the difference (in my case, anyway) between precise-but-missing-the-mark and correct-but-too-broad-to-be-useful, I think I'd prefer the latter. Even when Garmin Connect named something Haymarket Running (Haymarket being a suburb on the fringe of Sydney CBD) for me, it wasn't useful because I only run north of it, and never passed inside Haymarket's boundaries while the timer was running.
Yes I've never found the feature very useful but I did prefer the way it was - but seems to have changed in different ways for different users - I assume that's down to regional consistency of map data in whatever field Garmin are picking this up from
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.
