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Settings, Layers & Offline Maps
Everything about how the map looks and what it shows — downloaded offline maps, satellite and weather layers, the theme, POIs, road and label detail, on-map overlays and more. It all lives behind the Layers button.
- Open It
- The Layers button in the map's Section 3
- Map Data
- Offline maps + online layers (satellite, hillshading, weather)
- Appearance
- Theme, language, scale, roads / POIs / labels
- Per Profile
- Most map settings are saved per rider profile
The Map Settings Panel
Tap the Layers button (Section 3 of the bottom menu) to open Map Settings — ten categories that cover everything about the map:
Offline Maps, Language, Theme, Scale, Setup, Auto POI…
…UI & Controls, Map Overlays, Online Map Layers, Warnings.
Offline Maps
DMD Next's maps are vector maps stored on the device, so the map and the routing keep working with no signal — essential once you're off the grid. Download the regions you ride and manage them here.
Reach it from Map Settings → Offline Maps:
Your downloaded maps — each with an on/off toggle and its size.
Download Maps — browse by continent, then country.
Downloading a Map
Tap Download Maps, pick a continent, then the country or region you want. It downloads to your storage and draws immediately — each entry shows its size so you can budget space.
Updating Maps
When a newer version of a map you have is available, an update badge appears and an Update All button refreshes them in one go — keeping roads and POIs current.
Enable, Disable & Delete
Each map has an on/off toggle — switch one off to hide it without deleting (handy where neighbouring maps overlap), or delete it to free space. Keep the maps for where you're riding switched on.
Storage Location
Maps can live on internal storage or an SD card — the panel shows the current location and free space, and Change sets where new maps download.
Online Layers
On top of the offline base map, DMD Next can draw online layers when you have a connection — satellite imagery, national topo maps, hillshading and live weather. Pick what you want, or leave everything off for the fastest, data-free map.
Reach it from Map Settings → Online Map Layers:
Satellite & Raster — pick one base imagery source.
Hillshading, weather overlays, custom rasters and caching.
Satellite & Raster
Choose one imagery source: ESRI Satellite or a national topo raster (US Topo, Sweden, Australia, Norway, Czech, France IGN…). None keeps the clean vector map. An active raster disables 3D buildings.
Hillshading & GPS Traces
Hillshading shades the terrain for a sense of relief; Public GPS Traces overlays community-recorded tracks — handy for spotting trails. Each is an independent toggle with its own opacity.
Weather Overlays
Live Precipitation, Wind and more, drawn over the map with adjustable opacity — a quick read on what the sky is doing along your ride.
Custom Rasters & Caching
Add Custom Raster brings in your own tile source. Auto-Cache keeps online tiles you've viewed so they reappear offline, and Download Current Selection pre-caches the area on screen; Clear Auto-Cache frees that space.
Theme & Language
Two quick appearance settings, each its own row in Map Settings and each saved per rider profile.
Map Theme
Map Settings → Map Theme
Switch the map between Light and Dark (plus a high-contrast option), or let it follow day / night automatically.
Map Language
Map Settings → Map Language
Choose the language used for place names and labels. Changing it re-labels the map in place — no reload needed.
Map Scale
Map Scale tunes how big everything is drawn — make the map bold and glanceable for riding, or smaller to fit more on screen. It's three independent sliders, each a multiplier applied live as you drag:
Reach it from Map Settings → Map Scale:
Map Scale
1.00×–4.00×The global rendering scale: roads, terrain, everything. Turn it up to make the whole map bigger and bolder.
Labels Scale
0.50×–1.30×Text labels only (road and place names). Multiplies on top of Map Scale, so you can size names independently.
Symbols Scale
1.00×–2.30×POI and symbol icons. Also multiplies on top of Map Scale — bump it up to make fuel, food and viewpoint icons easier to spot.
The three sliders in the app, each showing its current multiplier and range.
Map Setup
Map Setup decides how much detail the map draws — which roads, POIs and labels appear, and how early they show up as you zoom out. Trim it to a clean set of main roads for fast glancing at speed, or pack in every track and footpath for exploring.
Reach it from Map Settings → Map Setup:
It opens as four rows — the first three set per-type visibility, the last is a simple on/off toggle:
Map Roads
Road-type visibility, from motorways down to tracks.
Map POIs
Which points-of-interest categories are drawn.
Map Labels
Text labels: road names, place names and more.
Altitude Lines
One toggle for contour lines and elevation text.
Visibility by zoom — the key idea
Inside Map Roads, Map POIs and Map Labels, every type has its own “show from” distance instead of a plain on/off. Tap a type and choose the map scale at which it starts to appear — from 200 km (always visible, even zoomed right out) down to 100 m (only when zoomed in close), or Hide to switch it off entirely. Each type shows its current distance, and a default marker reminds you of the shipped value.
Map Roads — tap a type (left) to pick the distance it shows from (middle). Motorways stay visible from 200 km out; minor roads only appear up close.
Map POIs (right) — the same, by category: fuel shows from further out than a cafe. Map Labels works this way too, for text.
Controls & Overlays
UI & Controls
Map Settings → UI & Controls
Show or hide the scale bar, zoom buttons and follow controls on the map.
Map Overlays
Map Settings → Map Overlays
Choose which trip-data cards and indicators float on the map, and enter placement mode to drag each into position. See Overlays & Placement below.
Warnings
Map Settings → Warnings
Alert types and outputs — speed cameras, limits, weather and more. Covered fully in the Warnings guide.
Auto POI — Points of Interest as You Ride
Auto POI is one of DMD Next's most useful map features: it constantly searches for the kinds of place you care about — fuel, food, viewpoints and more — and drops proximity markers on the map (and in the Nearby POIs overlay) as you ride, so the next fuel stop or lookout never sneaks up on you.
Reach it from Map Settings → Auto POI:
Enable Auto POI
The master on / off switch.
Three category slots
Tap a slot to choose what to watch for — Fuel, Viewpoints, food and many more. Clear empties a slot.
Search Radius
How far around you to look when you're not on a line: 5, 10 or 25 km.
Only on active Nav/GPX line
Restrict results to what's actually on your way. Explained just below.
How it searches — on the line vs all around you
What Auto POI hunts for depends on whether you're currently following a line. A “line” here means an active navigation or simply riding on top of a loaded GPX track or route — you don't have to be navigating, being on the line is enough.
On a line — navigation or a GPX track / route
Auto POI looks ahead along the line — the next fuel or lookout on your way, not what's behind you or off to the side. If nothing's close it keeps scanning forward down the line until it finds one.
Each result is flagged by how close it sits to the line: a green dot means it's on the line (within ~100 m — on your way); a red dot means it's a detour off to the side.
Off the line — free riding
With no route or track active, Auto POI searches around you, out to your Search Radius — biased ahead in your direction of travel while you're moving, or a full circle when you're stopped.
There's no line to measure against, so there are no on / off-line dots — every hit is simply the nearest of its kind.
The “Only on active Nav/GPX line” filter
This switch decides whether the off-line (red) results appear at all while you're on a line:
- On — hides everything more than ~100 m off the line, so you only see places on your way. Keeps the map tidy on a long route.
- Off — shows everything in range, with the green / red dots telling you which are on the line and which are a detour.
It only does something when a line is active. Free riding — no navigation and no track — there's nothing to be “on”, so the filter has no effect and Auto POI just uses your Search Radius.
On the map
Here's Auto POI while following a route — markers dropped along the way, and the Nearby POIs overlay listing the nearest of each category:
The Nearby POIs overlay (left) shows the nearest of each category with its green (on the line) or red (detour) dot and an Along track label — here the fuel stop is on the line, the restaurant is a short detour. Matching markers are dropped on the map.
Overlays & Placement Mode
The floating cards on the map — trip stats, altitude, heading, clock, road name, the progress card and more — are the Map Overlays. Turn each one on or off, then drag them exactly where you want.
Reach it from Map Settings → Map Overlays:
Enable / disable each overlay (GPX & Nav Progress is always on).
Placement mode — drag each overlay into place.
Using Placement Mode
Tap Position Elements at the top of Map Overlays to enter placement mode. Every overlay fills with example content so you can see it, and you can:
- Drag any indicator to reposition it — positions are remembered per orientation (portrait and landscape independently).
- Tap an indicator for its own options (such as size).
- Auto Arrange lays everything out tidily in one tap.
- Done saves your layout and exits.
Continue Reading
Next up — Navigation & Routing: turn-by-turn guidance, routing profiles and search.
Navigation & Routing Map Overview