A question for Zwift users...
12-22-23, 10:58 AM
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A question for Zwift users...
I have Strava friends who use Zwift a lot. Often their maps show them cycling or running on water! From land to water and back. I'll screen capture some of that and add it if no one has heard of this.
Any insight on why this happens? Literally looks like someone tracking an airplane meandering around.
Any insight on why this happens? Literally looks like someone tracking an airplane meandering around.
12-22-23, 11:18 AM
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These are essentially made up routes in the Watopia world. but they need real coordinates i think for Strava to work out distance and segments. elevation just happens.
12-22-23, 11:31 AM
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For Watopia and Makuri Islands I believe at first they attempted to keep the geographical coordinates of some real world locations (Watopia coordinates I believe are north east of Australia) but after expanding Watopia abandoned trying to match the terrain. I'm not completely sure about this though
But in a few of the worlds that Zwift has set up, New York, London, Paris, etc. the rides do correspond to the real world geographical location.
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12-22-23, 01:19 PM
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Watopia, Zwift's imaginary cycling world, is mapped to real coordinates in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. Sometimes the coordinates are over land, sometimes over water. There is no correlation between the real land and the virtual land.
12-22-23, 08:33 PM
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Yeah, that confused me when I'd see early Zwift users post on Strava.
Zwift is now the bulk of my Strava feed from other riders during the winter, and 20-30% even in the summer. Strava knows it's a Virtual Ride from Zwift. I don't know why Strava couldn't have the Zwift maps display for these rides.
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Even the NYC Central Park riding on Zwift is a fantasy version of NY, complete with flying taxis and a big climb up to the glass causeway high above Central Park:
Zwift is now the bulk of my Strava feed from other riders during the winter, and 20-30% even in the summer. Strava knows it's a Virtual Ride from Zwift. I don't know why Strava couldn't have the Zwift maps display for these rides.
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Even the NYC Central Park riding on Zwift is a fantasy version of NY, complete with flying taxis and a big climb up to the glass causeway high above Central Park:
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12-22-23, 08:53 PM
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I have Strava friends who use Zwift a lot. Often their maps show them cycling or running on water! From land to water and back. I'll screen capture some of that and add it if no one has heard of this.
Any insight on why this happens? Literally looks like someone tracking an airplane meandering around.
Any insight on why this happens? Literally looks like someone tracking an airplane meandering around.
It looks like an extended version of the named "Volcano Flat" route. Including long undersea glass tunnels and a ride through an active volcano's lava tunnels.
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Thank you everybody! That definitely answered my questions!
12-31-23, 12:49 PM
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Yeah, that confused me when I'd see early Zwift users post on Strava.
Zwift is now the bulk of my Strava feed from other riders during the winter, and 20-30% even in the summer. Strava knows it's a Virtual Ride from Zwift. I don't know why Strava couldn't have the Zwift maps display for these rides.
~~~
Even the NYC Central Park riding on Zwift is a fantasy version of NY, complete with flying taxis and a big climb up to the glass causeway high above Central Park:
Zwift is now the bulk of my Strava feed from other riders during the winter, and 20-30% even in the summer. Strava knows it's a Virtual Ride from Zwift. I don't know why Strava couldn't have the Zwift maps display for these rides.
~~~
Even the NYC Central Park riding on Zwift is a fantasy version of NY, complete with flying taxis and a big climb up to the glass causeway high above Central Park:
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