Sunday, December 18, 2022

Load Strava Heatmap on qgis

 Use the URL:

https://heatmap-external-a.strava.com/tiles-auth/ACTIVITY/COLOR/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png?Key-Pair-Id=MYVALUE&Policy=MYVALUE&Signature=MYVALUE

After logging in to https://www.strava.com/heatmap/ using a browser, you then have to retrieve and replace the MYVALUE items with appropriate cookie values for the following:

  • CloudFront-Key-Pair-Id
  • CloudFront-Policy
  • CloudFront-Signature
Click on the padlock icon in the URL bar while at https://www.strava.com/heatmap/ and take the values from Cookies.

You can use also this Chrome extension to fill the fields:
https://github.com/zekefarwell/josm-strava-heatmap