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.
- 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.
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 — 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.
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.
Loaded GPX Files — ADD GPX, Record and a HUB shortcut along the bottom; the settings gear is in the header.
ADD GPX — from Device Storage, the HUB GPX Manager, or Create with Planner.
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.
- 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.
Continue Reading
Next up — Warnings & Alerts: speed cameras, limits, route weather and off-track warnings.
Warnings & Alerts GPX Manager & Sharing Map Overview