Hi Rob!

Please check the “Individual Segments” view of the trip timeline items, and look for stationary segments in there. You can either tap those segments on the map, and assign them to places, or select them from the list of segments, and assign them to places that way.

Hi Matt.

Thanks for the prompt response but that’s exactly what I have been doing to assigning a location, but a lot of the times there aren’t any stationary or individual segments for me to select at a specific location. It simply thinks there wasn’t enough time pass to register as a stationary point which isn’t the case and it happens often.

One example of many is that I walked through famous laneway that had some art sculptures along the way which I wanted to capture in my travel log as a point of interest (I did this via Swarm). Then at the end of the laneway I entered a restaurant for lunch.

Again, I used Swarm to checkin but I really wanted to capture this in ARC as well. Looking at all the individual segments showed no stationary points for me to assign during my walk though the laneway.

I really do believe ARC needs a simple checkin feature to help with the timelines.

I also have this problem. Sometimes there’s no way to add a stationary point because the visit wasn’t long enough and I end up adding a note with the place name on the walking segment.

Rob, in those cases Arc should have recorded a stationary segment if you were stationary. So this should be classed as a bug.

It is a bad idea to add features that have the purpose of working around bugs. Instead, the bug should be fixed. If a new feature were added every time a bug were found, so that the bug could be worked around, then apps would be full of excessive features and become more and more complex to use, while failing to improve their core functionality.

If this happens again, please report it to me via email, with screenshots of the Individual Segments view and the map showing the segments. Then I will be able to look into possibilities for why there wasn’t a stationary segment recorded, and find ways to fix that problem.

Note also that if you did check in to the places with Swarm, then the Swarm Imports feature will allow those brief visits to be added to the timeline, based on Swarm checkins.

https://changemap.co/bigpaua/arc-app/task/3223-swarm-imports/

Of further note: One thing that can happen is if you confirm the type for an entire trip, that will often remove the stationary segments within the trip. Stationary segments will only be retained if the stationary probability of those samples was above a certain threshold.

So if there are stationary segments that you want to split out as separate visits, it’s best to do that before you confirm the type of the entire trip. Go into “Individual Segments” first, find the stationary segments you want to mark as individual visits, split them out, then after that it’s safe to confirm the remaining trips as their main type.