Default home location

CliffAinsworth said:

Can we please have a toggle to turn off the re-homing / cantering behaviour. Thanks

Yes, a good point for improvement.
That annoys me too.
The last edited start location of the activity is actually more intuitive. The place of residence, place of work and start location of a planned activity are not always identical.
It would be an improvement if you could save and retrieve at least a few favorite start locations.
This would significantly improve convenience.

CliffAinsworth said:

By default as soon as you have completed the import of a route in a remote location e.g I'm importing routes for a holiday in Tenerife, Connect web will return the focus of the map back to my home location in UK. I don't want it to do that! I want the map location to remain in the area that I'm planning routes.

True, planing routes far away and forced location by IP is a bad mix. Other websites display last viewed location and use IP only when it's missing or if user explicitly press button.

When user enters some data - it must be kept, moving a map to some place is such data, replacing it is very wrong.

BunBun! said:

Other websites display last viewed location and use IP only when it's missing or if user explicitly press button.

The most logical and intuitive option.

It works for me (since years), both on Edge and on Chrome, although on Edge, the page first loads with Olathe, and only after some 5s reloads with the map of my current location. If you are sure the location permissions are enabled, try disabling all extensions, to see whether it helps.

Hi !  I have the exact same issue that I can't find an answer for, soooo annoying.  Sorry if I am being dim, could you please elaborate further on what location sharing at OS level is ?  I am so over seeing that flaming US, Olathe map, when I am in the UK and all my details are in my account.  

OS = operating system. Examples: Windows, Android, iOS, MacOS, Linux.

Somewhere in your computer/phone settings, there is an option to enable location services, which should be disabled by default. If you enable it, the device will try to figure out where you are.

Without GPS capability, your location will be determined by your Wi-Fi ID and IP address. My Linux desktop  doesn't use Wi-Fi, so it's only my provider's public IP address  associated with me. This is inaccurate, so I end up with a map zoomed out to include most of Germany, with Kassel in the middle. By contrast, on my Android smartphone I'm nicely placed at my home address - one can fire a cruise missile and hit me in the head...

I would suggest the developers to stop trying to be clever, and just let the user set up their default location manually.

Toomas thanks so much, I completely get it now.  Usually I don't use my phone to look for courses so out of curiosity I checked and its correct there. I shall look for my windows settings and hopefully now resolve this - its something that has been bugging me for SO LONG.  Thank you.