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I found several border crossings between Russia, Finland and Norway that doesn't seem entirely legal. ;)
by kebman 9y ago
I found several border crossings between Russia, Finland and Norway that doesn't seem entirely legal. ;)
- jpindar 9y agoSame with North Korea.
- IncRnd 9y agoFor people's safety, you might want to delete that comment.
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- iaw 9y agoI found both activity at Pyongyang and what appears to be a smuggling route from China into NK.
- dionidium 9y agoYou think people are turning on Strava to track their smuggling activity?
- Whitestrake 9y agoI would have assumed that people wouldn't turn on their Strava to track their military activity, either, but here we are.
- dionidium 9y agoThey don't. There seems to be some confusion about how Strava works in this thread. People turn it on to track physical activity (i.e. exercise). Nobody is tracking their "military activity." They're turning Strava on when they go for a jog around the base. And then they stop it when their run is finished. If enough people on the base do this, then common routes will stand out on the aggregate map. Nobody on a smuggling operation would have Strava turned on. That makes no sense.
- mathiasben 9y agothat was my assumption as well, but examining the heat map data leads me to believe that certain always on devices are contributing data, are fit-bits constantly supplying coordinates? for instance, zoom in on the white house lawn. also look at the tracks between ascension island and Saint Helena in the Atlantic, it sure looks like cruising sailors are leaving tracks as they transit ports. I found others that clearly looked like people in tropical harbors near resorts zooming back and forth on what maybe are jet skis. that type of activity doesn't mesh with how I understand and use Strava, when I switch it on just for a run or cycle and then off after being done. I think there's some source of always on data being placed onto the heat map.
- kebman 9y agoFunny, the crossing that seems to happen over the Fenno-Russian border is categorized as motorized.
- jpindar 9y agoThere are other small areas, but as far as I can see they all correspond with known resorts and such, places where you'd expect upper class people.
- wott 9y agoWhere? I went to check and didn't really find any (I checked only the Norway-Russia border, that's shorter than the other ones :-) ).