Automatic course (route) detection

[Gloopzlemeep]

This is a feature I'm going to try to implement. I don't have a background in software development (just a hobbyist) so it could take me a while.

My thoughts on how it would work:

• draw a bounding box (polygon) around the GPS track such that all points are contained in it.
• find the GPS coordinate at the centre of the polygon.
• these 2 identifiers (GPS centre, polygon dimension) define the route.
• this gets saved as a route and assigned to the activity.
• any future activity with GPS centre and polygon dimension within a certain margin of an existing route is assigned to that existing route. Possibly updating the existing route to be an average of all activities that use it.
• new activities with GPS data not within a margin of an existing route creates a new one.
• routes are automatically named based on some map identifier (e.g. "suburb, city").
• routes can be renamed by the user.
• routes can be examined on a map showing the tracks of activities within it and the GPS centre and polygon.

I would love to get anyone's thoughts on this.

[codeproducer198]

I'm not sure if you see it. I have implement something similar (not exactly yours). I take the GPS positions and use "OpenStreetMap API Overpass" to construct "prominet" names of mountain peaks, huts, villages, lakes... and store it in a existing field. In german it's the "Strecke" can then contains for example (from my tours) "Rohrkopf - Riederstein - Kleintegernseer Berg - Pfliegeleck - Tegernsee" or "Gämsfairenstock - Gämsfairenjoch - Fisetenpass". You can search about this. This works for all activities and in the Notes additional infos are stored like "Strecken-Info>>Verpflegung: Claridenhütte<<Strecken-Info".
See more infos about this in the README under date 2022-12-27.