Activity Types

Activity Types control how routes and tracks are labelled, styled, and measured. They are useful when you want different defaults for walking, cycling, paddling, driving, or your own custom categories.

What An Activity Type Can Control

• the activity name
• line colour
• line pattern
• speed, ascent, and descent assumptions where used
• elevation threshold
• whether the activity is marked as a favourite
• whether it is the default for new routes and imports

Why This Matters

Activity Types help you keep different kinds of route data readable at a glance. For example, you might want walking routes in one style and cycle routes in another.

Typical Changes

• create a new activity type for a specific hobby or trip style
• mark your most-used type as a favourite
• choose a default so imported GPX files start with the style you prefer
• adjust colours and patterns to make overlapping routes easier to tell apart

Good To Know

Changing an activity type affects how matching route data is presented. It does not change the underlying map.