Activity Types
Activity Types are built-in profiles that help OMN4 style and measure routes and tracks. They cover activities such as walking, cycling, running, winter sports, and other outdoor uses.
Use Settings > Activity Types to choose an activity profile and adjust how that profile behaves.
What You Can Change
For the selected activity type, OMN4 lets you adjust:
- Line Colour
- Line Pattern
- speed, ascent, and descent assumptions
- Elevation Threshold
- whether the activity is marked as a Favourite
- whether it is the Default for new routes and imports
The activity name and category are not edited here.
Why This Matters
Activity Types help you keep different kinds of route data readable at a glance. For example, you might keep walking routes in one colour and cycling routes in another.
The speed, ascent, descent, and elevation threshold settings are also used where OMN4 needs activity-specific calculation assumptions.
Typical Changes
- 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
- adjust speed or ascent/descent assumptions so estimates match the activity better
How This Relates To Styles
Activity Types control colour, line pattern, and calculation assumptions. Global line widths, icon size, distance markers, and direction arrows are controlled in Styles.
Good To Know
Changing an activity type affects how matching route and track data is presented. It does not change the underlying map.