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Can someone who is familiar with Toronto say if this feels realistic to them? I understand the bits where the lines stick to the street grid, but some of the li

Can someone who is familiar with Toronto say if this feels realistic to them? I understand the bits where the lines stick to the street grid, but some of the lines appear to be crossing blocks in a very clean and straight way. Not saying it is not real but it is just a bit too clean to me. Even with extremely good planning i would expect that the lines would need to compromise sometimes to avoid buildings.

neom 2y ago
Doable for sure, however an incredibly boring running route.
- throw0101b 2y ago
  > Doable for sure, however an incredibly boring running route. The green patch in the head when the video starts is Christie Pits: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_Pits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_Pits The green patch by the right leg is: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Bellwoods_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Bellwoods_Park Both are nice, but the run would is done via Ossington on the left of the body: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossington_Avenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossington_Avenue And Gorve Vale/Grace on the right of the body. Ossington would probably have decent street life.
  - mikebowman 2y ago
    Ossington has basically no street life from Bloor to Dundas. Once you get south of Dundas it gets very lively, but the northern stretch of Ossington is a bit bleak, as someone who has also run a lot in that neighbourhood.
- amscanne 2y ago
  Why do you say this? I used to live right in the center of the stick figure, and regularly did the loop up around Christie Pits or down around Trinity Bellwoods. Those streets are great for running, not boring at all.
  - neom 2y ago
    I must confess, I looked at the map, looked at the streets, and even though I know exactly where that is as I live at Ossington and Dundas, my brain took spadina crescent on that map and somehow anchored it as the area next to the U of T circle to the east, so in my mind the map was all around the AGO... I dunno why.
mkonecny 2y ago
For the diagonal lines the runner turned his GPS off at some points, and turned back on at another, causing Strava to fill in the missing data with a diagonal line
- throw0101b 2y ago
  > For the diagonal lines the runner turned his GPS off at some points, and turned back on at another, causing Strava to fill in the missing data with a diagonal line This part of Toronto also has laneways, so if you use the above feature, in combination with crossing through laneways that don't show up as streets at this level of zoom, you can perhaps get diagonal interpretation from Strava.
canucker2016 2y ago
from his twitter/x acct, https://x.com/mccabedj/status/1860191515349504467 https://x.com/mccabedj/status/1860191515349504467 and https://x.com/mccabedj/status/1860192166561349753 https://x.com/mccabedj/status/1860192166561349753 People were generally understanding when I walked through homes. But when it got inconvenient I just stoped/started the app to get Strava to draw B-line between the points Strava requires a run to be continuous. So I do the full run. And in post I trim off the extra bits to get the hat in the air
mcpherrinm 2y ago
I live in Toronto and know who Duncan is. I can vouch he did this for real. Toggling Strava pauses to get nice straight lines is definitely a bit of a trick to make it nicer.
paulcole 2y ago
This is literally in the article. > When there are buildings in the way of a line he needs to draw, “I pause the app, then when I get to the desired destination, I resume,” he said. “When you un-pause, Strava runs a direct line between the two points.”
szundi 2y ago
may be just missing position samples from corners, end result is a shortcut line

neom 2y ago

Doable for sure, however an incredibly boring running route.

throw0101b 2y ago
> Doable for sure, however an incredibly boring running route. The green patch in the head when the video starts is Christie Pits: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_Pits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_Pits The green patch by the right leg is: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Bellwoods_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Bellwoods_Park Both are nice, but the run would is done via Ossington on the left of the body: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossington_Avenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossington_Avenue And Gorve Vale/Grace on the right of the body. Ossington would probably have decent street life.
- mikebowman 2y ago
  Ossington has basically no street life from Bloor to Dundas. Once you get south of Dundas it gets very lively, but the northern stretch of Ossington is a bit bleak, as someone who has also run a lot in that neighbourhood.
amscanne 2y ago
Why do you say this? I used to live right in the center of the stick figure, and regularly did the loop up around Christie Pits or down around Trinity Bellwoods. Those streets are great for running, not boring at all.
- neom 2y ago
  I must confess, I looked at the map, looked at the streets, and even though I know exactly where that is as I live at Ossington and Dundas, my brain took spadina crescent on that map and somehow anchored it as the area next to the U of T circle to the east, so in my mind the map was all around the AGO... I dunno why.

mkonecny 2y ago

For the diagonal lines the runner turned his GPS off at some points, and turned back on at another, causing Strava to fill in the missing data with a diagonal line

throw0101b 2y ago
> For the diagonal lines the runner turned his GPS off at some points, and turned back on at another, causing Strava to fill in the missing data with a diagonal line This part of Toronto also has laneways, so if you use the above feature, in combination with crossing through laneways that don't show up as streets at this level of zoom, you can perhaps get diagonal interpretation from Strava.

canucker2016 2y ago

from his twitter/x acct, https://x.com/mccabedj/status/1860191515349504467 https://x.com/mccabedj/status/1860191515349504467 and https://x.com/mccabedj/status/1860192166561349753 https://x.com/mccabedj/status/1860192166561349753 People were generally understanding when I walked through homes. But when it got inconvenient I just stoped/started the app to get Strava to draw B-line between the points Strava requires a run to be continuous. So I do the full run. And in post I trim off the extra bits to get the hat in the air

mcpherrinm 2y ago

I live in Toronto and know who Duncan is. I can vouch he did this for real. Toggling Strava pauses to get nice straight lines is definitely a bit of a trick to make it nicer.

paulcole 2y ago

This is literally in the article. > When there are buildings in the way of a line he needs to draw, “I pause the app, then when I get to the desired destination, I resume,” he said. “When you un-pause, Strava runs a direct line between the two points.”

szundi 2y ago

may be just missing position samples from corners, end result is a shortcut line