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Opening Files & Locations from Other Apps
Got a track in your email, a route someone sent on WhatsApp, or a place shared from Google Maps? Use Share or Open with and pick DMD — the file lands in your GPX library, the roadbook opens, or the place appears as a pin on the map.
- How To Use It
- In the other app, tap Share or Open with and choose DMD
- Track Files Go To
- The map's Loaded GPX Files
- PDFs Go To
- The Roadbook section
- Locations Go To
- A pin on the map plus the Location Info panel
How It Works
You don't import anything from inside DMD for this. You start in the app that has the file or the place — your email, a messaging app, a file manager, Google Maps — and hand it over:
Share
The usual share button. DMD appears in the list as Import to DMD for files, or Show in DMD for places.
Open with
Tapping a file in a file manager or an email attachment. Choose DMD from the list of apps that can open it.
Several at once
Select a whole folder of tracks and share them together — they import as one batch, without the map jumping about between files.
.gpx still opens as a roadbook.
If DMD isn't running when you share something, it starts up first and then shows you the result — nothing is lost while the app is loading.
Track & Route Files
These all end up in the map's Loaded GPX Files, exactly as if you'd imported them from device storage — with the same duplicate check, colour settings and HUB sync prompt. The map switches into view and centres on what just arrived.
| Format | What comes across |
|---|---|
| GPX | Tracks, routes and waypoints — the standard format, fully supported. |
| KML | Google Earth and Google My Maps files. Lines, points, areas and timed tracks all come across, including elevation and descriptions. |
| KMZ | A zipped KML. If it holds several map layers they're merged into one imported file. |
| GeoJSON | Common from route planners and OpenStreetMap tools. Lines, points and areas. |
| TCX | Garmin Training Center. Laps become separate track segments; course points become waypoints. |
| FIT | Garmin and Wahoo activity files. Records with no satellite fix are skipped rather than drawn as stray lines. |
| ITN | TomTom itineraries. Imported as a route, so DMD works out the roads with your own routing profile. |
| CSV | Waypoint lists from a spreadsheet — campsites, fuel stops, hotels. The latitude, longitude and name columns are found automatically. |
Roadbooks
Share a PDF to DMD and it opens straight in the Roadbook section, ready to ride. The file is kept on the device, so it's still there the next time you open the app.
OpenRally roadbooks arrive as GPX files, which could be either a roadbook or an ordinary track. When DMD recognises one it asks which you want:
- Roadbook only — opens it in the Roadbook section.
- Roadbook + Map — also adds it to your GPX files, so it stays in your library after the ride.
Shared Locations
Share a place to DMD and the map opens with a pin on it and the Location Info panel — the same panel you get from a long press on the map, with Navigate To, Save Location and Share. When the source carried a name or address, that's shown too instead of bare coordinates.
Map apps
Google Maps (places, dropped pins, short links and directions), Apple Maps, Waze, OpenStreetMap, Bing Maps, HERE and OsmAnd.
“Navigate to” links
A navigation link from another app starts guidance straight away rather than only dropping a pin.
Coordinates in a message
Plain coordinates in any form — 41.1579, -8.6291, 41°09'28"N 8°37'45"W and the usual variants.
Grid references
Plus Codes (like 8CCGPRJ8+P8), MGRS and UTM — all decoded on the device, no signal needed.
maps.app.goo.gl kind),
which don't contain the coordinates at all until they're looked up, and places shared as a plain street address.
Photos, Contacts & Selected Text
Photos
Share a photo and DMD reads the location the camera saved in it — handy when someone sends a picture of the turn-off or the meeting point. Photos sent through some messaging apps have that information stripped, and DMD will say so.
Contacts
Share a contact card — a workshop, a hotel, a dealer — and its address is looked up and pinned on the map.
Selected text
Select coordinates or a map link anywhere — a message, a web page, a PDF — and choose DMD from the text selection menu.
If Something Doesn't Open
DMD tells you what went wrong rather than failing quietly. The usual cases:
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| “DMD can't open … files” | The file isn't one of the formats above — the message names what it actually is. |
| “it contains no tracks, routes or waypoints” | The file is valid but empty of anything to put on the map. |
| “it only links to data hosted online” | A KML that points at a map on a server instead of carrying it. Export it again with the data included, or download the full file first. |
| “This link needs an internet connection” | A shortened map link that can't be looked up offline. Try again when you have signal, or ask the sender for the full link. |
| “No location found in what was shared” | The shared text has no coordinates or map link in it. |
| “That photo has no location saved in it” | The photo was taken with location off, or the messaging app removed it. |