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Map
The Map is the heart of DMD2 — detailed offline maps and satellite imagery, turn-by-turn navigation, your GPX tracks and routes, live warnings, and a screen full of glanceable overlays. This page is the tour of the map screen itself; the deeper topics each have their own guide below.
- Map Data
- Offline vector maps + optional satellite / online layers
- Follow Modes
- Free, North-Up, Bearing-Up, 3D
- Map Buttons
- Quick Actions, Search, GPX, Shortcut, Quick Menu
- Deep-Dive Guides
- Navigation, GPX, Settings & Layers, Warnings
The Map Screen
Everything on the map is arranged around the moving map itself. Here is the anatomy of a typical screen while navigating:
The map screen while navigating, with the key elements numbered.
- Follow button — round toggle (top-left) that sets how the map tracks you. See Follow Modes.
- Info overlays — floating cards showing distance, altitude, nearby POIs, road name and more. See Overlays & Placement.
- Zoom control — zoom the map in and out. (You can also pinch, and the follow mode decides whether panning is free.)
- Your position — the arrow marking where you are and which way you're pointing.
- Navigation instruction — your next turn, distance and ETA while a route is active. Full detail in Navigation & Routing.
- Speed — the speedo in the centre of the bottom menu. Tap it to open the Trip view. (See Speedo Area.)
- Map buttons — Section 3 of the bottom menu: Quick Actions, Search, GPX, the assignable Shortcut button and the Quick Menu. See Map Buttons.
A round Online Layers button also sits in the bottom-right corner. With an extra layer on (satellite, weather, fire alerts, country overlays…) it carries how many; tap it to switch layers on and off without leaving the map. See Online Layers.
Follow Modes
The round follow button in the top-left corner sets how the map behaves as you move. Each tap steps through the following modes — Bearing-Up → 3D → North-Up → back to Bearing-Up — while Free is the paused state you drop into by panning the map by hand:
Free
The map stays put so you can pan and zoom freely to look around. Your position icon still shows where you are.
Bearing-Up
The map follows you and rotates to your direction of travel, so straight ahead is always up. Resuming follow from Free lands here by default.
3D
Bearing-Up with a tilted 3D perspective for a more immersive view of the road ahead.
North-Up
The map follows your position with north always up — good for keeping your bearings.
Map Buttons (Bottom Menu, Section 3)
When the Map section is active, Section 3 of the bottom menu carries the map's own buttons:
Section 3 with Map active (landscape) — Quick Actions, Search, GPX, the Shortcut button, and the Quick Menu arrow-up.
| Icon | Button | What It Does |
|---|---|---|
| Quick Actions | Opens the Quick Actions panel beside the map — one-tap map actions, with DMD HUB as its top entry (the HUB lives here now). Any group Help Me pulse rides on this button; a red dot means a GPX recording is running, and an amber ! means your HUB session needs a fresh sign-in (the same ! shows on the DMD HUB row inside). See Quick Actions. | |
| Search | Search for a place, address or coordinates and navigate to it. | |
| GPX | Opens your loaded GPX files — tracks, routes and waypoints. See GPX guide. | |
| Shortcut | A rider-assignable slot. Unassigned it shows a star and a tap opens the mapping dialog; once assigned it shows that function's own icon and a tap runs it. A long-press always reopens the mapping dialog. See the Shortcut button. | |
| Quick Menu | The global Quick Menu — Profile, Settings, Keep Background and Shutdown. See Global Settings & Profiles. |
One Close Button, and Back Goes Back
The button you open something from — Quick Actions, Search, GPX, the Shortcut or the Quick Menu arrow-up — turns into the circle-X while it is on screen, and stays that way through anything you open from there: the recorder you start from Loaded GPX Files, the DMD HUB you open from Quick Actions, the settings behind a panel's gear. Only that one button shows the circle-X, and one tap on it closes everything back to the map.
A panel's own Back arrow always goes to the screen you were on before it: the recorder opened from Loaded GPX Files goes back to Loaded GPX Files, the DMD HUB opened from Quick Actions goes back to Quick Actions, and Trip Sharing opened from the recorder goes back to the recorder. Something you opened straight from the map — with the Shortcut or one of the round map buttons — closes back to the map, even when it opened on a page deep inside the HUB.
Quick Actions & the Shortcut Button
The Quick Actions button — the lightning bolt at the left of Section 3 — opens a panel of one-tap map actions beside the map. It took over the slot the old dedicated HUB button held, so the DMD HUB now lives inside it, as the panel's top entry.
| Row | What It Does |
|---|---|
| DMD HUB | Opens the DMD HUB beside the map — your profile, GPX, locations, riding groups, Trip Sharing and Discover. This top entry is where the dedicated HUB button used to be. While the HUB is open, on any of its pages, the Quick Actions button stays the circle-X, and a tap closes the HUB; the HUB home's own Back comes back to Quick Actions. |
| GPX Recorder | Start and stop recording a track. While a recording is running the card grows a row with New Track, Add Waypoint and Pause / Resume. |
| Quick Save Location | Saves your current spot as a location in one tap. It's an action, not a toggle — it fires and closes. |
| Planner | Opens the Planner to build routes and tracks on the bike. |
| Improve the Map | Opens the riding panel to tell OpenStreetMap about the road you’re on. While the panel is up, the Quick Actions button is the circle-X, and a tap closes the panel. |
| Report a Closure or Hazard | Opens the Rider Reports panel to tell other riders what is on the road or trail here. Like Improve the Map, the Quick Actions button is the circle-X while the panel is up. Its pins switch on and off under Quick Toggles → Rider Reports. |
| Quick Toggles | Fast on/off switches for map behaviour — the map and UI themes, Map Overlay Indicators and more. |
| Extra Map Layers | Quick toggles for ESRI Satellite, Hillshading, Precipitation and Community Ways — and Offline Content once you have downloaded an area — without opening Online Layers. |
The Shortcut Button
The fourth button in Section 3 is a rider-assignable Shortcut. Unassigned it shows a star, and a tap opens the mapping dialog to pick a function. Once assigned it shows that function's own icon and a tap runs it — and a long-press always reopens the mapping dialog to reassign it. While a view it opened is on screen, the button turns into the circle-X close control, like GPX and Search, and a tap closes that view. It is the only close button then — with Map Settings assigned, the arrow-up stays an arrow — and the view's own Back closes it to the map.
The mapping dialog groups what the button can do into three lists:
Views
- Map Settings
- GPX Recorder
- Planner
- Riding Groups
- DMD HUB
- GPX File Manager
- Discover (see the tier matrix)
Actions
- Quick Save Location
Toggles
- Start / Pause GPX Recorder
- Auto Zoom
- Satellite View
- Precipitation
- Auto POI
- Action Cameras Recording
- Map Overlay Indicators
- Map Dark / Light Theme
- Map UI Dark / Light Theme
A view opens that screen and an action runs once. When a toggle is assigned, the button also shows its current state: an underline while the toggle is on — for Map Overlay Indicators that means the indicators are currently shown — a red stripe while the GPX Recorder is recording and a yellow one while it is paused (Action Cameras Recording goes red the same way), and the two theme toggles carry their state in the icon itself, a sun or a moon. Map Dark / Light recolours the map itself; Map UI Dark / Light recolours the panels and chrome around it — the two are independent, and flipping one pins that theme (the map one also stops following the light sensor) until you change it again.
Direct Lines
A direct line is a straight line drawn from your position to a point you picked, with the distance written along it, redrawn as you ride. It is the same read as the Away From Track distance line, except you choose where it points — and you can have several at once, each in its own colour.
It is not navigation: no route, no turns, no ETA. It is the as-the-crow-flies line to somewhere you want to keep an eye on — the fuel stop, the pass you are heading for, the camp the group is meeting at.
Adding a Direct Line
Three kinds of point can carry one. In each case the button reads ADD DIRECT LINE, and once a line exists the same button reads REMOVE DIRECT LINE:
- A GPX waypoint — open the waypoint from GPX → Waypoints and use the button at the foot of its detail panel.
- A saved location — open one of your My Locations places and use the button under Center / Share.
- Any point on the map — long-press the map to open Location Info, tap MORE ACTIONS and the button is in there. This is how you put a line on somewhere that isn't saved anywhere.
The Direct Lines Panel
While at least one line is running, a small Direct Lines button appears on the map: a dotted line running to a pin, the pin in the colour of the nearest line, with how many there are underneath. It is noticeably smaller than the follow button and carries no coloured ring inside it, so it never reads as another Active Group or Trip Sharing button. Tap it to open the panel, which lists every line nearest first with:
- the live distance to that point;
- its name and where it came from (GPX waypoint, saved location or custom point);
- a colour swatch — tap it for the same twelve colours the GPX line pickers use, so two lines never look alike;
- a × to remove that line, and REMOVE ALL DIRECT LINES at the foot when there is more than one.
Tapping a row's name centres the map on that point. Rows hold their order while the panel is open, so nothing slides out from under your finger — only the distances change.
At the top of the panel, Line Width sets the thickness of every direct line at once. It stays folded away so it never pushes the lines off the screen — the row shows a sample stroke at the current weight, and tapping it unfolds the slider. It is a look, not a per-line property: colour is what tells two lines apart.
Direct lines survive closing the app and belong to your rider profile, so each profile keeps its own. You can have up to ten at once. The button drags and resizes like every other map button — long-press it, or use Position Elements. It has no on/off switch of its own: it is already absent whenever you have no lines.
Explore the Map Guides
The Map is big — each area has its own in-depth guide: