GDPR: Strava's download option has moved

[c-harding]

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[c-harding]

The new location is at https://www.strava.com/account, and includes photos etc as well. I'm now trying to download my own data, to see how it works

[c-harding]

108 MB: rather massive

[c-harding]

The export's activities are as before, except that their file names do not include the activity type (this is included in the activities.csv file), but it now includes photos. These are not geotagged, and don't have anything to relate them to their activities or their locations. I'm not sure how well a browser would cope with 90 MB of photos…

[c-harding]

Bug report submitted to Strava:

Subject: Data export function does not include location information or activity ID in photos.
Description: When requesting a data export, there is very little information on photos taken. The photos.csv file does not include the photograph's location or the ID of the ride it was tagged on.

[erik]

Thanks for being on top of this. Kind of annoying that the location and format of everything changed

[c-harding]

And the file formats of the activities are an absolute mess: it's a mixture of gpx, tcx and gzip’ed versions of each

[hugovk]

Yeah, the mixture is annoying, it's because the zip contains the original files that were uploaded. So I have FIT files for the activities from my GPS recorder, and GPX from the Strava app.

The earlier download only had GPX, which included Strava's "corrections", like if some elevation was clearly off. I think if you sent a GDPR request, they should still send the processed versions of your data.

[erik]

I think we can call this resolved since there's been support for .fit, .fit.gz, and .tcx as well, which should cover the common cases.