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)
@AllanOlesen67: Given that all but two of my timed run activities (on record in Garmin Connect, that is) in the last 18 months or so were in the vicinity of the Sydney Opera House / Royal Botanic Garden / The Domain / Art Gallery NSW – that is, the northeast section of Sydney CBD – no, I haven't personally experienced or encountered the opposite.
I used to get names based on a specific suburb or an obscure Post Office, but now just get "Melbourne Walking" for my walks.
In fact, looking back at my activities, it seems that the name was based on nearby Licenced Post Offices, rather than the suburb. It was therefore very inaccurate.
I've changed my Display Preference to Location & Device Activity Name" in the hope that I get more accurate suburb based naming.
I used to get names based on a specific suburb or an obscure Post Office, but now just get "Melbourne Walking" for my walks.
Oh, OK, so that's what that was about: QVB, Australia Square and Sydney South are all names of post offices. Still strange, because Sydney Parliament House post office and Royal Exchange post office would still be closer to the Royal Botanic Gardens and Sydney Opera House. Anyway, that's all water under the (Sydney Harbour) bridge…
In the UK, for rural areas, activities used to be named by village (I guess by civil parish/council ward) but now are named by much larger local authority areas. It means that all runs i run within that large area are labelled the same, even if they start 10 or 1 miles apart, and this means that you can't search back to find specific runs anymore. I loved it the way it was - the data is completely devalued if i can't find the activities I'm looking for - place is a lot more memorable than date.
(In cities, the activities were also labelled by council ward and sometimes this seems a bit weird as people don't always know or refer to city ward areas by their name, so i can see that some people might prefer to have city runs labelled by a 'larger' area council descriptor (e.g. Cambridge (City Council) as opposed to (Trumpington (ward)).)
Clearly some people will prefer very localised auto-labelling and some larger scale. Could this not be an option, since Garmin clearly have the ability to apply either form of label and there is already the capacity to chose activity name style in settings?
Adding location based activity titles was my favourite Garmin update, by a long way... now I feel like 90% of my activities might as well titled 'untitled' as they will all have the same name...
iona.robinson yes it is a bit annoying - I guess it's difficult to find a one-size-fits-all globally but I'm sure a solution could be found that would give a more local geographic location rather than a council ward or borough
