I’ve renamed your suggestion from “Vehicle Log” to “Custom Activity Types”, because it comes very very close to the existing planned feature of being able to add your own custom activity types, and have them treated the same as any other activity type.

Basically the idea is you would add a new type name (and choose an icon and colour) when classifying a trip. Then from then on that activity would be available to us to classify other trips, and Arc would also learn to automatically assign it to trips, the same as it would with any other activity type.

This one is my personal favourite feature idea, and one that I’ve been wanting to add literally for years! It just needs enough people saying “I want that too” to make it happen 😂 So it definitely gets my vote!

What is really important for me is to be able to still see the total times/distances, e.g. cycling time, and also the time I spent on each bike. Same for cars.

With custom activity types, you’d get that functionality for free, with the Activity tab 😄

Each of your custom types would show up in the Activity tab, with their own summaries for day, week, month, year ranges.

Read again please. The request is to see the total accumulated time cycling (sums of all different cycling subtypes), and also the data split up by bike (each subtype on their own)

Hmm. In that case you’d need something like the “subclassing” that we briefly discussed on Slack. That way it would be possible for the custom types to be subclasses of the main built in types. Then trips assigned to the custom types could contribute to the stats of both the main type and custom type.

Subclassing could be great to have. I’d love to add subclasses to know how many kms I’ve done with a specific car/bike or just to know how many kms I’ve done solo vs with my dog!

+1 for subclassing, in my case I would like to have sailing boats and motor boats as subclasses of Boat

Yeah, the more examples given, and the more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that subclassing is going to be the way to do it in the UI. There’s so many useful cases.

I think on the technical side, inside the classifiers themselves, it won’t make sense to use subclassing. Because for example a speedboat and a sailing boat will have little to no overlap in model feature histograms (eg speed, accelerometer, course variance), so a superclass of “boat” would have a harder time trying to accurately detect both subclasses. The superclass would need to maintain histograms with multiple peaks, and be at risk of false positives for other unrelated types.

But from the UI and data presentation perspective, it seems like subclassing will definitely be the way to go. It’ll give us a lot more useful ways to view the data.

I can’t find hiking option in Activity Type. Is there possible to add it?

Larry, I recommend adding that as a separate feature request, so that it can get votes 😄

New activity types are added based on popularity. So the more votes for an activity type here on Changemap, the more likely it is to get added next.

I thought of other use cases for subclassing! (Or custom grouping?) I’m not at all a runner, but since I take public transit everywhere, when I run, it’s because I’m trying to catch the bus so I don’t have to wait another 40 minutes for the next bus. (It’s sketchy in downtown LA at night!) Thus, I just sprinted for 5 minutes to catch the bus and would love to keep it as “Running”, but in my personal reviews I don’t want to have to go the extra step of adding Running data to Walking data. So I’d class these together as Feet! Similarly, I mentally group Metro and Bus together since most of my public trips involve a combo, so I’d want to class them together as Public Transit data.

Matt, What’s the status of this one?

This one is one of the most likely to get built soon! It’s a personal favourite, and it gets highly voted in the polls I do on the support forum for each next release.

Definitely vote for it in the support forum polls. The latest poll is here.