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Loaded Files & Details
The Loaded GPX Files panel is mission control for everything drawn on your map. Show and hide items, reorder them, and open any track, route or waypoint for a detail view — where you set its colour, navigate to it, edit route points and more.
- Open It
- The GPX button (Map, Section 3)
- Per Item
- Show/hide, reorder, or open its detail view
- Detail Views
- File, Track, Route, Waypoint
- Editable
- Colour, direction, and route points
The Loaded GPX Files Panel
Tap the GPX button (Section 3 of the bottom menu) to open Loaded GPX Files — everything currently drawn on the map. Each file expands to the tracks, routes and waypoints it contains, and each of those is a row you can act on.
Loaded GPX Files — each file with a visibility toggle and its content counts, plus Import / Record / Settings.
Show / Hide
Toggle any item on or off the map without deleting it. A master show / hide clears everything off the map in one tap — and brings it all back just as fast.
Reorder
Drag items to reorder them — which matters when lines overlap, since the order sets what draws on top.
Open for Detail
Tap an item to open its detail view — different for files, tracks, routes and waypoints (below).
Set Colour For All
At the top of a file's Tracks or Routes list, Set Colour For All paints every line in one tap — pick from the same dozen colours, or Reset All to hand them back their original colours. Its swatch shows the shared colour when they all match, and the line under it tells you how many it will hit.
Filter by Name
Long lists get a filter box. The master show / hide and Set Colour For All then act on just the tracks or routes you've filtered down to — a quick way to colour, say, every “Day 2” leg at once.
File Detail
Open a file to see everything inside it — Tracks, Routes and Waypoints with their counts (tap one to drill into its list) — and to act on the file as a whole:
File detail — its tracks, routes and waypoints, plus Center, Info, Invert and Unload.
Center
Frame the whole file on the map.
Info
File summary — distance and contents.
Invert
Flip the file's direction to ride it the other way.
Unload
Take the file off the map — it stays in your library.
Download Map Layers
Pre-cache the active online map layers (satellite/topo raster, hillshading…) along a corridor around every track and route in this file — offline imagery for exactly where you'll ride, without downloading half the state. Pick the zoom range and the corridor width (1–20 km each side), check the tile estimate, and the layers download in sequence. Needs at least one online layer active.
Track Detail
A track's detail view is where you make it look and behave the way you want:
A track's detail — line colour, invert direction, and Center / Navigate To (Info opens its stats). Shown in the 3-panel cascade (map · tracks · detail).
Colour
Give the track its own colour from a palette of a dozen (blue, green, red, orange, purple, cyan, magenta…), or reset to default. Apply To All Tracks, under Reset, hands this colour to every track in the file — the same thing Set Colour For All does from the list. A colour mode (surface / slope) or a colour set on the HUB can take over instead — see GPX Appearance.
Navigate & Center
Navigate To starts guiding you to the track, and Center frames it on the map.
Ascent & Descent
Total climb and drop over the track, so you know what you're in for.
Point Info
Tap a point along the track to see its distance to the start and to the end — handy for judging how far into a ride something is.
Measure Distances
Under Info, Measure Distances measures along the line (never straight-line): total length; start → you and you → end while you’re riding the track; Two Point mode — tap two points on the line for the distance between them, with the measured span highlighted on the map; and Single Point mode — tap one point for its distance to the start, the end and to your position. Values follow your unit settings.
Download Map Layers
Pre-cache the active online map layers along a corridor around this track for offline use — pick the zoom range and corridor width (1–20 km each side) and the estimate updates live. Needs an online layer active.
Route Detail & Route Points
A route shares the track's colour, navigate, center, point-info, Measure Distances and Download Map Layers (corridor) tools — including Apply To All Routes in the colour picker, and Set Colour For All Routes at the top of the Routes list — and adds two route-specific ones:
Invert Direction
Reverse the route so start and end swap — ride your planned loop backwards without re-drawing it. If a recalculation fails, a retry is offered.
Route Points
Open the Route Points editor to change the via-points the route runs through — the route recalculates around your edits.
The Route Points Editor
Inside the editor you can:
- Add from map — tap anywhere on the map to drop a new via-point (tap again to cancel).
- Add from search — add a via-point by searching for a place or address.
- Reorder the points, or Reset order to undo your reshuffle.
- Remove added points you've dropped, then Confirm to rebuild the route through the final set.
Route Repair
When a route can't be calculated — most often a GPX made in another planner with a point the profile can't reach, or a point outside the mapped road network — DMD Next offers to repair it right after the import, the route's detail shows an amber warning with Retry Calculation and Repair Route, and the file's detail gains a Repair Routes button that walks every failed route in turn. Repair checks the route section by section, tells you how many sections and points are affected (and when the real cause is missing routing data, says so — those files download in the background), and offers:
- Fix Automatically — failing sections are routed on Match Any Road, unreachable points are moved onto the nearest road (or, as a last resort, skipped), and you get a summary with a Keep / Undo choice before the changes stick.
- Show Failed Points — the unroutable points get numbered amber pins; tapping a pin offers Snap to Road, Skip Point or Edit Points. The pins clear once the route calculates.
- Change Profile — switch the whole route to a different riding profile, with the failed points kept visible while you choose.
Waypoint Detail
A waypoint's detail view is simpler — it's a single named point:
Waypoint Details — including the Priority Waypoint switch.
Coordinates, elevation and description, how far away it is, and the actions you can take on it — plus the switch that makes it one of your Priority Waypoints.
Navigate & Center
Navigate To routes straight to the waypoint; Center frames it on the map.
Two Distances
Both the direct (as-the-crow-flies) distance and the distance along the line when the waypoint sits on a loaded track or route.
Name & Symbol
Its name, description and symbol (fuel, viewpoint, camp…) — the same symbol drawn on the map.
Priority Waypoint
Mark this waypoint as one of your objectives — see Priority Waypoints below.
Priority Waypoints
On a well-marked route the next waypoint is often just the next turn — useful, but it tells you nothing about how far it still is to the checkpoint, the fuel stop or tonight’s hotel. Mark those as Priority Waypoints and they get their own permanent line while you ride, so the distance to your real objective never scrolls away behind the turn-by-turn waypoints.
The Waypoints list — tap a star to mark that waypoint as an objective.
Two waypoint lines — the next waypoint, and below it your objective.
Marking one
Tap the star on any row in a file’s Waypoints list — it fills amber to show the waypoint is marked. You can also open the waypoint and use the Priority Waypoint switch in its detail view. Mark as many as you like: while riding, the line always shows the next one ahead of you.
A second line, not a replacement
The existing waypoint line keeps counting down to the next waypoint, with its usual proximity alerts. The priority line is added underneath it, star-badged and in amber, with the name and distance of your objective (and its arrival time on the landscape card — tap any time on the progress card to flip between arrival time and remaining travel time).
In portrait
The portrait progress bar has four slots. Your objective takes one whenever there’s room — and when every slot is already spoken for, it takes precedence over the plain next waypoint, which you can still see as a pin on the map.
It travels with the file
The mark is stored in the GPX file itself, so it survives a restart and comes back with the file when it syncs through your DMD HUB account. Nothing else changes — a priority waypoint is drawn on the map and alerts you exactly like any other.
Continue Reading
Back to the main GPX guide — importing, folders, appearance, recording and track navigation.
GPX: Tracks, Routes & Waypoints Map Overview