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 ADD GPX / Record / HUB (the settings gear is in the header).
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 an item by its grip handle (the dotted ⠿ on the left) to reorder — 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.
How Much It Can Hold
Loaded GPX Files is for the files this ride needs. Keeping your whole collection is the job of the HUB GPX Manager, where a file costs nothing until you switch its Load to Map on. Every file in Loaded GPX Files is held in the device's memory, ready to draw and to follow — whether or not it is showing on the map right now — so the list has a limit, and the app no longer lets it grow to the point where the device runs out of memory and closes DMD2 by itself.
Measured in Points
The limit is not a number of files: a 100-point loop and a full day's recording are both “one file”. It counts track and route points, because those are what take the memory, and it follows the device — a unit with more memory holds more. On a typical DMD unit that is around 1.5 million points: tens of thousands of kilometres of track, far beyond any one trip. A file showing on the map counts for about twice as much as a hidden one, because the map keeps its own copy of every point it draws (Slope Coloring adds a little more). Hiding a file frees that share as well as unloading it.
The Capacity Line
From half full, the panel shows Capacity used: N% under its header. It turns amber from 85% and red at 100%, when it also asks you to unload the files you are not using. Below half you will never see it.
When It Is Full
A file that does not fit is not loaded, and a notice says so by name: Loaded GPX Files is full. If you had just switched its Load to Map on in the GPX Manager, the switch goes back off. Nothing is deleted — unload what you are not riding with, then load it again. The first file into an empty list is never refused, however big it is.
Unloading Is Not Deleting
Unload (in a file's detail) takes a HUB file off this list and out of memory. It stays in your GPX Manager and on your HUB account, one Load to Map switch away. A file that exists only on this device — one you imported while signed out, say — has no other home: its button reads Delete File instead, and the app asks before removing it.
Recordings You Are Not Showing
Your own recordings are kept on the device even when they are not in this list, because a ride cannot be downloaded again. While a recording is neither shown on the map nor listed here, its points are not held in memory and do not count toward the limit; they are read back from storage the moment you open or show it.
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, Stats, Edit, Details, Invert and Unload (GROUP on the group's shared route). Where those three rows would crowd the list — a phone in landscape, the portrait split view — they fold to Center and Unload with the rest under More Actions; on a tablet there is room, so they stay as shown.
Center
Frame the whole file on the map.
Stats
The numbers — distance, points, elevation range and the paved / unpaved split — under the elevation graph. The split is by distance and matches the HUB Planner and the map’s Unpaved Dashes; a stretch with no road data is shown on its own row, not counted as either. A file planned on the HUB brings its surface along; for any other line it is worked out from your offline maps as Stats opens. Detach floats the graph over the map as a card you can drag by its title: tap a point on the graph, or slide a finger along it, and the map moves to that spot of the route. The card’s Full view button goes back to Stats.
Edit
Opens the file in the planner, where saving writes back into it.
Details
The same file’s page in your HUB GPX Manager — its name, description, photos and sharing, where it is (continent, country and, in the United States, the state), what you rode it with and the largest vehicle it suits, its difficulty with that vehicle and its off-road %. Back from that page returns you here, to this file. A file kept on this device opens its device-only page, the one its row under On this device only opens; only a navigation route, and a group route that is not on your HUB, have none.
Invert
Flip the file's direction to ride it the other way.
Unload · Group
Take the file off the map — it stays in your library. On the riding group's shared route this button reads GROUP instead and opens the group's Files tab, where that route is set and cleared: the file belongs to the group session, so it isn't yours to unload.
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. The button only appears while at least one cacheable online layer is on (satellite/topo raster, hillshading, public GPS traces or a custom layer) — with none of them on there is nothing to download.
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).
Visible on Map
Draw this track or take it off the map, right where you're looking at it — no need to go back to the list. It's the same switch as the eye on the list row, so it only appears when that list isn't on screen beside you: in portrait, or when you opened the detail by tapping the line on the map. With the list next to you, use the row's eye.
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 & Navigation → Line 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. Appears only while a cacheable online layer is on.
Route Detail & Route Points
A route shares the track's Visible on Map switch, 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 — drag a point by its grip handle (the dotted ⠿ on the left) to its new place; pressing and holding the row still works. Reset order undoes your reshuffle.
- Remove added points you've dropped, then Confirm to rebuild the route through the final set.
Building a route from scratch rather than editing one? the Planner offers the same add-from-map, add-from-search and drag-to-reorder tools, plus named stops and undo.
Edits to Your HUB Files
When the file is one of your own HUB files, an edit — route points, direction, riding profile, a repair, or a Planner save — is followed by Save changes to HUB?, asked once the route has recalculated:
- Save — your HUB copy is replaced with the edited file, so your other devices get the change.
- Always — the same, and later edits go to the HUB without asking. Auto-sync edits to HUB under GPX & Navigation → GPX Files Only turns this back off.
- Not now — the change stays on this device only and the HUB copy is left as it was. Syncing keeps your edited file as it is, unless the HUB copy itself changes later (edited on the website or on another device): that newer copy then replaces it.
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 — DMD2 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.
A route always comes with its turn instructions. A file from the HUB usually carries its road line and turns ready-made, so it shows at once. When a file carries only the road line, DMD2 calculates the route to get its turns. If that can't be done — offline, with no routing data for the area — the road line is shown with the amber warning, you're told the route has no turn instructions, and it is calculated again once you're back online.
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.
Visible on Map
Show or hide this waypoint's pin — the same switch as the eye on its list row, shown when that list isn't beside you (see Track Detail).
Navigate & Center
Navigate To routes straight to the waypoint; Center frames it on the map.
Add Direct Line
Draw a straight line from you to this waypoint, with the distance on it, updating as you ride. See Direct Lines. The line is dropped if the file is unloaded or hidden, or the waypoint is hidden.
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 card shows the next one ahead of you — and in landscape up to three, each on its own line, as long as the card has room for them.
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 landscape, further objectives ahead get lines of their own below it — up to three, in riding order.
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. With only two items to show — say the next waypoint and the end — each gets a full-width row of its own; the two-per-row packing only kicks in with three or four.
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