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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 DMD Next 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.

Each track, route and waypoint has its own detail view — open it to show or hide it on the map, navigate to it, rename, share or delete it.

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.

Appearance & Overlays

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

GPX Settings: GPX Overlays (surface and slope), GPX Appearance (line width, opacity, pin size), Warnings, and Advanced Settings
  • GPX Appearance — line width, opacity, direction-arrow size and waypoint pin size.
  • GPX Overlays — recolour a track by surface (paved / unpaved) or by slope, so the terrain reads at a glance.
  • Advanced Settings — show route points and distance markers along the line.
  • 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:

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 — DMD Next preserves a paused recording so you can resume it next launch.

Track Navigation & Warnings

Track Navigation

Turn on Track Navigation (GPX Settings → Advanced) to get turn-by-turn generated along a track — DMD Next reads the track's geometry and calls out the bends and junctions as you ride it.

Off-Track Warnings

GPX Settings → Warnings covers off-route, wrong-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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