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Default home location setting

When starting to build a course, ridewithgps defaults to my home location which is useful as most of my routes/courses start within 5 miles of home. With the course screen on Garmin Connect however it defaults to some random location centred on Greenford/Wembley and I have to perform a search to get back 'home' every time I create a new course which is rather tedious. Could this be changed in a Garmin Connect future update?


  • I would like this setting as well,
    pain in the a** to get home on the map every time I want to create a new course.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    PLEASE!! I plan my routes all the time. when ever i discard a route to try something else I end up back in Kansas City (Garmin USA HQ) and have to search for my home again. You HAVE the information in our profiles, why isn't is used instead?

  • Technically it's really simple to let user choose location.

    So why not? Because they are self centered noobs... "watch our HQ, haha, we don't listen to you, lol"... that's so so lame...

    .

    You can easier use your location for the CoursesMap and SegmentsMap - doing as below (from my FAQ which I made some time ago)

    The HeatMap alone opens in same random location. To open the HeatMap on your location by default:
    1. save some Course in CoursesMap.
    2. And tick Popularity Heatmap option on the right.
    3. And click on Created by You tab on the left.

    Those settings will be saved. This way the CoursesMap opens centered on your courses locations and also shows heat.

    .

    The SegmentMap reset every time you open it... location and activity type reset...
    To make it easier, save bookmark with javascript, then click on the bookmark you created, to auto fill filters.

    It needs to be one line to save it as bookmark on your browser.
    Example - this will set the Map on the city named "CityName" and select Activity Type: Running.

    (Add java script : before script below, without any space and with colon, the new forum blocks scripts.)

    {var d=document; d.getElementsByTagName("input")[0].value="CityName"; d.getElementsByName("1")[1].click(); d.getElementsByClassName("icon-search")[0].click();}


    Other filters (change or add to the javascript above):

    - location, change CityName to yours:
    d.getElementsByTagName("input")[0].value="CityName";

    - Activity Type: [0]-any, [1]-running, [2]-cycling:
    d.getElementsByName("1")[1].click();

    - Segment Type: [0]-any, [1]-sprint, [2]-hills, [3]-downhill, [4]-hill, [5]-other:
    d.getElementsByName("2")[5].click();

    - Surface: [0]-any, [1]-gravel/unpaved, [2]-dirt, [3]-mixed, [4]-paved:
    d.getElementsByName("3")[4].click();

    - This will click search, activating filters, must be last:
    d.getElementsByClassName("icon-search")[0].click();

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to BunBun!

    WHAT?!? Sorry for not having a computer science degree.  Ride with GPS opens to a set home position.  Map My Ride opens to a set home position.  Why can Garmin Connect not make this simple, and obviously sought after option?  

  • Why can Garmin Connect not make this simple, and obviously sought after option?

    I would tell that it imay be because they have too many tasks with higher priority on their schedule. Another possibility is that nobody asked them such feature (or not enough people, to raise its priority). And since the map centers around their HQ, by default, the developers perhaps did not even notice it did not default to user's location. So if the feature is important to you, simply go ahead and tell them.

    Otherwise, if you do not change locations frequently, you can create a course in your location. If you then leave the Courses page on the "Created by You" tab, next time you visit the Courses page, it will open with the map of you location. And if you leave it on the "Nearby Courses", next time it reopens again with the Garmin's HQ location, but you can recenter the map to your location simply by clicking the tab "Created by You".

     just posted how you can automate the process, but doing it manually is quick enough too.

  • please enable home location to the default start location for creating new course