Hide Home Location On Garmin Connect.

If you want Garmin to 'hear' you, then you should probably submit it as an "Ideas to Garmin" or write them. For the most part this is a user to user forum and there is no certainty that Garmin looks at every post here.

Though others have ask for this in the past, I still personally think it's false security. The people looking to steal are not going to go to that great an effort, IMO. Most just look for opportunity and happened to see a bike in an open garage as they drove by. Trying to search Garmin Connect and then find the time the people will be gone and the bike still there is too much trouble.

Hi voiceresponse :-)
Thanks for your reply.
As Press Secretary for my local cycle club I get to hear the details of many cycle thefts. A worrying number of those have been described as 'Targeted' by the police, as distinct from opportunist or drive by etc. Sheds and garages have been broken into which contain several high value cycles ,over a dozen in the last 3 months.
While they may have been targeted through knowledge gained through other means, other than the posting of ride info, no one can be certain (unless the criminals are caught and admit to this).
So I stand by my urgent request for this enhancement to Garmin Connect, as do many of my colleagues. Why give the opportunity for information to be misused, when a relatively simple mod would give users much more confidence to use Garmin Connect, possibly to the extent that Strava is used already?
I have previously submitted this idea through "Ideas to Garmin" and wasn't aware that these posts might not reach their intended target (someone who can actually do something about it!), but at the same time I had hoped to alert others and perhaps give others a nudge to contact Garmin with the same request.
Our Garmin Connect group has had to remain closed to non members because of this issue, because of members concerns about their security. Some have backed out of joining purely because of that. If the added option of protecting your home location was available, we could even open up the group to non members and become far more inclusive - attracting new people to the club etc. :)
Thanks again!

Agreed this just seems a sensible feature to offer - it is there on Strava and cannot be difficult to implement - I suggest that anyone who supports this submits it as an idea to Garmin - then if sufficient people ask it may be implemented

Home Privacy

Can Garmin Connect not protect the location of home locations like Strava does by not showing the start & ends of rides that start at registered locations??

It's otherwise known as Geofencing. I agree it's a neat feature offered by Strava as well as other non-fitness sites such as Flickr to its registered users that gives them somewhat a decent peace of mind whenever they upload their GPS-tracked activity but they don't want anybody in this world to know where their training basecamp is (aka residence).

Not a knock against GC but their search feature whether for an interesting ride made by others or simply looking for a Connection (be it an acquaintance or not) pales in comparison to that of Strava or RWG so GC is relatively okay even if they haven't implemented geofencing yet on their site. Garmin still has a long way to go in this respect.