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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
Add From
Device storage, the HUB GPX Manager, or the Planner
Also Here
Sharing a file, recording a ride, GPX & Navigation settings, track navigation

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. In a file with 100 or more waypoints — a TET country, say — pins that would sit on top of each other join a round number bubble showing how many it holds; tap the bubble to zoom in on them. Zoomed in close, every waypoint has its own pin again. With Show Waypoint Labels on, a name shows only where it has room: it never covers another name or a pin, so in a crowded spot some pins stay bare (your Priority Waypoints get their names first) until you zoom in.

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. Open it with HUB → GPX Files, or with the HUB button in Loaded GPX Files.

The GPX Manager: round Filter, Search and New Folder buttons and a blue Import button in the title bar, then folders — Community Collection, Shared With Me, My Recordings, My Trips, App Planner and Easy — each with an icon and file count

The GPX Manager — your folders (with custom icons and file counts), with Filter, Search, New Folder and Import in the title bar.

Folders

Group rides your way in folders of your own — an icon picked on the HUB website (a star for wish-list rides, a car for 4×4, and so on) shows here too. Community Collection, Shared With Me, My Recordings and My Trips sit above them.

Filter & Search

The round buttons in the title bar filter, sort and search your library and add a new folder; the blue Import button brings a GPX in from the device (on a narrow screen it shrinks to its icon). The same structure appears in the HUB web GPX Manager.

A File's Details

Tap a file for its page: load it on the map, edit its details, give it a colour, open it in the Planner, see how much of it you have ridden — and share it.

Sharing

SHARE FILE sends the .gpx itself; SHARE LINK makes a link — Locked, so the file stays yours and in sync, or Download, for a copy of their own. See Sharing a GPX File below.

Every folder, filter and button, and sharing step by step, is in the full guide: GPX Manager & Sharing.

Sharing a GPX File

Open the file in the GPX Manager: the buttons under LOAD ON MAP share it.

A file's details in the GPX Manager: UNLOAD FROM MAP, then SHARE FILE, SHARE LINK, EDIT and COLOUR, and EDIT IN PLANNER

A file's details — SHARE FILE and SHARE LINK sit under the load button.

The Share Link form: EXISTING LINKS, the Locked link switch and its note, the optional date and limit switches, CANCEL and CREATE SHARE LINK

SHARE LINK — Locked (the default) or Download, with optional dates and a limit.

  • SHARE FILE — sends the .gpx itself through any app: email, a messaging app, Drive… The other rider gets a copy. See Sending the File.
  • SHARE LINK — a link to send. Locked, the default: the file lands in the other rider's Shared With Me folder, stays in sync with your edits, and you can take it back — with optional dates for when it opens and when it goes. Download: they get a copy of their own. See Share Links.
  • MAKE ACTIVE GROUP GPX — the file becomes your riding group's route, on every member's map. See Sharing With Your Group.
  • Make Public (under EDIT) — after a review, every rider can find it in Discover. See Publishing to the Community.
Someone sent you a link? Open it in the browser. A Locked link's page has Add to my GPX Manager (sign in to the DMD HUB first), and the file appears in Shared With Me; a Download link's page gives you the .gpx, or a copy in your own GPX Manager. See Receiving a Shared File.

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. Its bottom row is ADD GPX, Record and a HUB shortcut; the settings gear now sits in the panel header. The HUB shortcut opens the GPX Manager beside the map, and Record opens the GPX Recorder: until they close, the GPX button stays the circle-X and a tap closes them, whatever you opened inside, while their own Back takes you back to Loaded GPX Files.

The Loaded GPX Files panel with ADD GPX, Record and a HUB shortcut at the bottom, and a settings gear in the panel header

Loaded GPX Files — ADD GPX, Record and a HUB shortcut along the bottom; the settings gear is in the header.

ADD GPX dialog with three options: Device Storage, HUB GPX Manager, and Create with Planner

ADD GPX — from Device Storage, the HUB GPX Manager, or Create with Planner.

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 — where a library file offers Unload, its detail offers GROUP, which opens the group's Files tab where that route is set and cleared.
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.

Planner

The Planner builds GPX files on the bike — routes with turn-by-turn, exact tracks drawn with a finger or snapped to the road, and waypoints — several sections in one file, and it edits any GPX you already have. It has its own guide: Planning Routes & Tracks.

Open it from Quick Actions → Planner, from ADD GPX → Create with Planner in the Loaded GPX Files panel, or with Edit in Planner on a loaded file’s details.

GPX & Navigation Settings

How the lines you follow look and behave — a loaded GPX file and a Navigate To route alike — is set in GPX & Navigation: the gear in the Loaded GPX Files panel, Map Settings → GPX & Navigation, or the GPX & Navigation Settings button at the bottom of Navigation Options. One rule covers the whole section, and the panel states it at the top: everything applies to GPX files and to navigation, unless a row says GPX only. A navigation is drawn and followed exactly like a GPX route, so the same line, pins and progress card serve both; the only things it can never have are waypoints and a track to follow.

Looking for the off-route, wrong-direction and waypoint alerts? They live with every other alert under Map Settings → Warnings.
GPX & Navigation: Line Appearance, Pins on the Line, Progress Card, Off-Route & Re-Routing and GPX Files Only
  • Line Appearance — line thickness, opacity and direction-arrow size, with a live preview on the map as you drag each slider; and under Line Coloring, Unpaved Dashes (a dashed overlay over the unpaved parts of a line that run 250 m or more, coloured by how rough they are; a stretch with no road data under it is never dashed), Slope Coloring (the whole line recoloured by gradient steepness) and Overlap Arrows (direction markers where a line crosses itself). All of it shapes the navigation line too.
  • Pins on the Line — Pin Size (waypoint pins, and with them the navigation's turn icons and speed-limit roundels), Show Route Points, Distance Pins (a marker every 25 / 50 / 100 / 250 / 500 km or mi along each track and route, each one labelled with the distance it stands for; where they would overlap — zoomed out, or where several tracks run side by side — only those with room show, the round distances first, and the rest come back as you zoom in) and, under Pins Ahead, Steep Section Pins, Unpaved Section Pins and Speed Limit Change Pins. Those three are live: they appear only while you are actually following a line — riding on (or near) it — and mark the next few ahead of your position rather than every one in the file, so the map stays readable. Steep pins mark sections at 15% or steeper, with an arrow for up or down and a colour for how steep. Unpaved pins mark the start of each dashed unpaved stretch. The Waypoint Labels group (Show Waypoint Labels, Waypoint Label Size, Hide Waypoint Labels Beyond) is marked GPX only.
  • Progress Card — which rows the progress card shows: Distance & ETA to End (the end of the track, route or navigation), Next Waypoint Progress, Next 3 Waypoints (off by default: up to three upcoming waypoints on the card instead of only the next one, in landscape as the card has room) and Compact Progress (swap the full card for a small distance-and-ETA pill so more of the map stays visible; tapping the pill opens the same things a tap on the full card does). The last three are marked GPX only — navigating to a point always keeps the full card, with its turn banner and Navigation Options. Your Priority Waypoints need no switch: they always get their own lines under the waypoint rows, up to three in landscape as the card has room, the next one in portrait.
  • Off-Route & Re-Routing — how the You are off route dialog behaves when you leave a calculated route. Switch the dialog off entirely and pick the method DMD Next applies silently instead (ReRoute To Line, ReRoute To Next Point or Do Not Reroute), set how long the dialog waits before confirming on its own (5–30 s), choose which option it pre-selects (your last answer, or a fixed one), and decide whether route dialogs capture the remote controller (Always, Never, or Once per navigation). The panel says it up front: navigating to a single destination always re-routes automatically; these options govern GPX routes and multi-stop navigations. The options themselves are explained under Off-Route Choices.
  • GPX Files Only — the rows a navigation never touches: Track Navigation with its curve alerts; Color on Import, that is 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 — it applies to files loaded from then on; for files already on the map use Set Colour For All instead; nothing is lost, Reset on a line hands the file's own colour straight back); and, under HUB Sync, Auto-sync edits to HUB and Help the planner learn better routes (see Help the Planner Learn).
  • 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.

What counts as unpaved. The Unpaved Dashes, the Unpaved Section Pins, the paved / unpaved split in Stats and the HUB Planner all use the same rule on the OpenStreetMap tags of each road: a tracktype of grade 2–5 is unpaved; otherwise the surface decides (gravel, dirt, grass, rock, sand, wood… are unpaved; asphalt, concrete, sett, bricks… are paved); a road with no surface tag is unpaved if it is a track, path, bridleway or footway, and paved otherwise. Short blips under 150 m take the surface of the road around them, and where a line leaves the mapped road network it has no surface data at all — left out of the percentages rather than counted either way.

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 & Navigation → GPX Files Only) 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

Map Settings → Warnings — where every alert lives, road warnings and line alerts alike — covers Away From Track and Wrong Direction for GPX lines and navigations both (on a GPX line the wrong-direction notice offers to invert the track; while navigating it shows a U-turn and re-routes automatically instead), and Waypoint Proximity for GPX files only. Away From Track holds two independent things: On The Map → Distance Line, the red line drawn from you to the nearest point of the track with the distance on it, and Alert → the screen flash, voice and speedo badge. Both come up at the same moment, once you’re clearly off the line — more than 20 m for a few fixes, or 15 m and riding away from it — and go once you’re back within 15 m. Turning the alert off leaves the line drawn; the line has its own switch. Full detail in the Warnings guide.

Continue Reading

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

Warnings & Alerts GPX Manager & Sharing Map Overview
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