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GPX: Tracks, Routes & Waypoints

Load the tracks and routes you want to ride, drop and follow waypoints, and record your own rides — all organised in folders and kept in sync with your DMD HUB account.

HUB-SYNCED FOLDERS RECORD YOUR RIDES TRACK NAVIGATION
At a Glance
Open It
The GPX button in the map's Section 3
Content Types
Tracks, Routes and Waypoints
Import From
Device storage or the HUB GPX Manager
Also Here
Record a ride, set appearance, track navigation
Table of Contents

Tracks, Routes & Waypoints

A GPX file can hold three kinds of content, and DMD2 treats each a little differently:

Tracks

A breadcrumb line to follow — a recorded ride or a planned trail. Follow it visually, or turn on Track Navigation for turn-by-turn along the line.

Routes

A line with route points that can be navigated with full turn-by-turn. Open a route and choose Navigate To to ride it.

Waypoints

Named points with a symbol (fuel, viewpoint, camp…). Tap one to see details, hide/show it, or navigate straight to it. Star the important ones as Priority Waypoints to keep their distance on screen while you ride.

Each track, route and waypoint has its own detail view — set its colour, navigate to it, invert its direction, edit route points and more. See Loaded Files & Details for the full breakdown.

The GPX Manager

Your whole GPX library lives in the GPX Manager, organised into folders and synced with your DMD HUB account — so the same tracks and routes are there on every device you sign into, and on the web.

The GPX Manager showing folders: Community Collection, My Recordings, App Planner, Easy, Future Wanna Do, Imported and Road And 4x4, each with an icon and file count

The GPX Manager — your folders (with custom icons and file counts), plus filter, search and add-folder at the top.

Folders

Group rides your way — give folders names and icons (a star for wish-list rides, a car for 4×4, and so on). My Recordings and Community Collection are there by default.

Filter & Search

Use the toolbar to filter and search across your library and add new folders. The same structure appears in the HUB web GPX Manager.

Loading & Importing

Tap the GPX button (Section 3 of the bottom menu) to open Loaded GPX Files — the tracks, routes and waypoints currently drawn on the map. From here you can import more, record, and reach GPX settings.

The Loaded GPX Files panel with Import, Record and Settings buttons at the bottom

Loaded GPX Files — Import, Record and Settings at the bottom.

Import GPX dialog asking where to import from: Device Storage or HUB GPX Manager

Import from Device Storage or the HUB GPX Manager.

Imported files land in your library and are drawn on the map immediately. A master show/hide lets you clear everything off the map in one tap without deleting anything.
Riding with a group? The group's active route appears here too, marked with a GROUP pill — and it has its own show/hide toggle. Hiding it only takes the line off your map: the file stays loaded, synced and cached, so flipping it back on is instant and never re-downloads anything, and your choice is remembered per group. The file itself belongs to the group session, so unload, delete and sync stay managed for you.
Coming from another app? You can also send a file straight to DMD with Share or Open with — from your email, a messaging app or a file manager. Besides GPX, DMD accepts KML, KMZ, GeoJSON, TCX, FIT, ITN and waypoint CSV files, converting them into your library automatically. See Opening Files & Locations from Other Apps.

Appearance & Overlays

Control how tracks and routes look from GPX Settings (the gear in the Loaded GPX Files panel):

You can also open this panel from Map Settings → GPX Settings — the same settings, without going through Loaded GPX Files first.
GPX Settings: GPX Overlays (surface and slope), GPX Appearance (line width, opacity, pin size), Warnings, and Advanced Settings
  • GPX Appearance — line thickness, opacity, direction-arrow size, waypoint pin size, Show Waypoint Labels (a name tooltip above each pin) with an adjustable Waypoint Label Size, and Hide Waypoint Labels Beyond (auto-hide those labels once the map is zoomed out past a set distance). A live preview on the map updates as you drag each slider.
  • Override Track Color / Override Route Color — switch either on, pick a colour, and every track (or route) in a GPX file gets that colour as the file loads, in place of whatever colour the file itself carries. Handy when files arrive in colours you can't read at speed. It applies to files loaded from then on — for files already on the map, use Set Colour For All instead. Nothing is lost: the file's own colour is still there, and Reset on a line (or Reset All from its list) hands it straight back.
  • GPX Overlays — under Line Coloring, Unpaved Dashes lays a dashed overlay over the unpaved parts of a track, and Slope Coloring recolours the whole line by gradient steepness, so the terrain reads at a glance. Under Warnings, Slope Warning, Unpaved Warning and Speed Limit Changes add pins on the line ahead of you. Those three are live: they appear only while you are actually following a file — riding on (or near) one of its lines — and they mark the next few ahead of your position rather than every one in the file, so the map stays readable. A file merely loaded and sitting on the map shows no warning pins. Slope pins mark sections at 15% or steeper, with an arrow for up or down and a colour for how steep.
  • Advanced Settings — route points, distance markers, the progress card lines (track / route, next waypoint, and Priority Waypoint Progress — a second waypoint line locked to your next Priority Waypoint), Compact Progress (while you are following a GPX file, swap the full progress card for a small distance-and-ETA pill so more of the map stays visible — navigating to a point always keeps the full card; tapping the pill opens the same things a tap on the full card does: Navigation Options while navigating, the file's details otherwise), HUB auto-sync, and Track Navigation.
  • Colour — give a track its own colour, or let a colour mode (surface / slope) take over. A colour set on the HUB comes through too.

Recording a Ride

The red Record button in the Loaded GPX Files panel records your ride as a GPX track — with a live stats dashboard, auto-record and more in the full Recording a Ride guide:

Records in the Background

Recording keeps running when you switch sections or send the app to the background — so a full ride is captured without you babysitting it.

Saved & Synced

Finished recordings are auto-named and saved to My Recordings, then synced to your HUB — where you (or the web) can rename, edit or delete them.

Recording survives an app Shutdown if it's paused — DMD2 preserves a paused recording so you can resume it next launch.

Track Navigation & Warnings

A track is only a breadcrumb line, so it carries no turn instructions of its own. Track Navigation (GPX Settings → Advanced) generates guidance from the track's own geometry as you ride it — pick the mode that suits the terrain:

Attempt Turn by Turn

Converts the track ahead into normal turn instructions wherever it matches the road network — best for tracks that follow real roads. On a long run with no turn in it the card shows Keep straight with the distance checked ahead, so the instruction slot is never empty.

Next Curve Geometry

Draws the next curve's shape, angle and distance, coloured by difficulty (easy / medium / hard) — ideal offroad or on trails that aren't in the road network.

Hybrid

Turn-by-turn where the track matches roads, curve guidance where routing can't — and on any stretch where turn-by-turn has no manoeuvre to call, the next curve fills the card instead. (Choose Off for no track guidance at all.)

Curve Alerts

Flash / LED blinks the screen and LED in the curve's difficulty colour; Voice speaks the upcoming curve's difficulty, direction and distance (“hard left in 100 m”).

Off-Track Warnings

GPX Settings → Warnings covers off-route, wrong-direction (a U-turn prompt when you ride a track against its direction) and waypoint-proximity alerts. Full detail in the Warnings guide.

Continue Reading

Next up — Warnings & Alerts: speed cameras, limits, route weather and off-track warnings.

Warnings & Alerts Map Overview
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