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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
- HUB, Search, GPX, Layers (Map Settings), 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: HUB, Search, GPX, Layers and the Quick Menu. See Map Buttons.
With any extra layer enabled (satellite, weather, fire alerts, country overlays…), small round active-layer icons also sit in the bottom-right corner — one per layer; tap one to review and switch layers off. 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) — HUB, Search, GPX, Layers, and the Quick Menu arrow-up.
| Icon | Button | What It Does |
|---|---|---|
| HUB | Opens the HUB overlay on the right of the map — your riding group, buddy positions and shared content. | |
| 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. | |
| Layers | Opens Map Settings — theme, offline maps, online layers, POIs, overlays and warnings. See Settings & Layers guide. | |
| Quick Menu | The global Quick Menu — Profile, Settings, Keep Background and Shutdown. See Global Settings & Profiles. |
In landscape, while on the Map section, tap the Map button a second time to open Quick Actions — GPX recorder, quick-save location, planner and quick toggles.
While a ride is being recorded, a shortcut row appears under the GPX Recorder card with a pause/resume button plus + Track / + WPT (new track / add waypoint) — see Shortcuts & Remote Control.
Explore the Map Guides
The Map is big — each area has its own in-depth guide: