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Well, a route taken regularly at 3 am is almost certainly not someone taking an off duty stroll. I do not know if you can readily figure that out from the data

• mxfh 9y ago
  How can you be so sure? Patrol shifts are normally rotated to prevent exactly that among other reasons, while someone having a regular non-patrol late shift (or early) and doing his exercise regularly at 3 am is also not unheard of.
  • gmueckl 9y ago
    I did do some guard duty. The bases I was at were dead silent in the middle of the night.
• matthewowen 9y ago
  You might be able to, but even then it is more likely to be a person doing exercise on a device with the wrong time zone than it is to be someone on patrol. To reiterate: Strava isn't always on. These are activities people have actively chosen to log. The chance of it being someone out on patrol is... not high.
  • gmueckl 9y ago
    Having to actively log the data is interesting. I agree with your conclusion there. However, GPS is primarily a very high precision time signal, from which the current location is reconstructed. Basically, a properly designed software would do the proper time zone adjustment based on that, so the data should ideally be in local time everywhere without exception. Everything else would be a bug in my book.
    • matthewowen 9y ago
      OK, but that isn't how these devices work. Source: I've used lots of them and it's a real pain in the ass.