Import or export a GPX route

Open the GPX file on your phone and choose Detecht. To export, open a saved route, tap Share, then Export GPX.

Import routes you planned in another tool, or past favorites saved as GPX files. Once imported, you can edit a route as if you planned it in Detecht, navigate it or share it with other riders.

Import a GPX file from your phone

  1. Open the GPX file from anywhere on your phone: your files, an email or your browser.
  2. Choose Detecht in the list of apps that appears.
  3. Detecht opens and imports the file.

Import a GPX file in the app

  1. Tap Routes at the bottom of the screen.

  2. Tap the GPX import button in the top right corner.

    The Routes page with the GPX import button in the top right corner

  3. Find and choose the GPX file in your phone's file browser.

  4. Detecht imports the file and opens it.

After the import

A GPX file holds either a route or a track.

  • A route opens on the map, ready to edit, save to your planned routes or navigate.
  • A track opens Track Options, where you choose how to use it.

For a track, choose one of:

  • Follow Track Line: shows the track as a fixed line on the map to follow. You can't edit it or get turn-by-turn directions.
  • Convert to Route: turns the track into a route you can edit, save and navigate with turn-by-turn directions.

Track Options with the Follow Track Line and Convert to Route buttons

Export a route as a GPX file

You can export any saved route in Detecht, your own and other riders'. Save the route first if you haven't.

  1. Open the saved route.

  2. Tap Share at the bottom of the route.

    A route with the Share button at the bottom, above Plan or Ride

  3. Tap Export GPX.

    The Share Route sheet with Export GPX first in the row of options

  4. Choose where to send or save the file.

Where GPX files can come from

Detecht imports GPX files from many route planners and services, including:

  • Garmin Desktop App
  • MapSource
  • MyRouteApp
  • Mapstogpx.com
  • Kurviger
  • Calimoto
  • TomTom MyDrive
  • Stegra.io
  • REVER
  • RouteYou
  • GPX.studio
  • ChatGPT

Files from other sources may work too.

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