Places, addresses, and custom locations

What the three location-picker icons mean and which one to choose.

The location autocomplete shows three kinds of result, each with its own icon. The icon tells you where the suggestion comes from — and what happens when you pick it.

The three icons

  • Placea canonical equestrian venue from our curated dataset (40,000+ venues across Europe, North America, and Oceania, sourced from Foursquare). Picking a place links your video to that venue so search, filters, and the location heatmap line up across users.
  • Addressa street address or neighbourhood we previously resolved from someone's GPS coordinates via OpenStreetMap. Use these when no curated venue matches — e.g. you train at a private yard that isn't in any directory.
  • Customwhatever you typed, kept as free text. Pick this when the venue genuinely has no name (a friend's field) or when you want a personal label like "Home arena". Custom locations are visible only in your own library.

Prefer Place when it matches

Linking to a curated place means your videos share a location with everyone else's videos at that venue — that's what makes "all my Lummen rounds" or "show me everyone's Sentower videos" work. If a Place result matches, pick it over the Address or Custom version of the same name.

GPS auto-fill still wins

If your video has GPS coordinates, we auto-resolve them to a Place (or, on a miss, an Address) on upload — the picker only appears when there's no GPS. See Tagging videos.

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