Convert Route to Track

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• November 11, 2022 00:57

It would be great to be able to convert a route to a track.

(I know this can be done in reverse (converting a track to a route). 

I have an old hike (track) I did in 2015 saved as a route. I'm not sure why — perhaps I converted it to a route, not understanding what I was doing years ago. I dunno.

But if I could convert it to a track and have it filed back where it belongs, that would be helpful.

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  Brentbat

  • December 21, 2022 03:07

  +1 on this feature.    I would prefer to export clean tracks.  I love Gaia GPS, but the only things I hate is the export file format.  It's like a Frankenstein file.   It's not a proper Track... but it's a route that acts like a track and it peppers hundreds or even thousands of waypoints in the file.

  Right now I'm having to export my route as a GPX file and then bring it into Basecamp where I convert it to a track and send the clean track to my GPS unit.

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  Larry

  • May 04, 2023 18:46
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  +2 on Exporting a Route as a Track.  I love GAIA for building routes.  However  the people I Overland with have many different brands of dedicated GPS units and can only import GPX files that are tracks.  They cannot import a GPX file that contains a GAIA GPX route. 

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  wegger

  • May 24, 2023 23:50

  I agree that a native function to create a Route in Gaia and save or export as a GPX Track would be great. I found a work-around that's kind of kludgy, but works. 

  1 - In Gaia, export your tracks or folder of tracks to GPX and save on your device or computer.

  2 - Go to: https://www.gpsvisualizer.com/

  3 - On main page choose "Convert to GPX"

  4 - On next page choose "Upload" and find your saved Gaia GPX file on your device/puter

  5 - Open the Advanced options tab and in Track and Waypoint options select:
  - GPX/CSV routepoints: Convert to tracks only
  - Include waypoints: None
  - Geotag points with time but no position: No

  6 - Go back up to the top and "Convert" 

  7 - Wait for it to crunch, and save the file to your device.

  You "should" be able to open the resulting standard GPX file in Gaia, Mapsource, Basecamp, etc.

  I've not played around much with the color, tagging, geocache, etc options, but have found good results with the options above. 

  Hope this helps. 

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  laurettasalmon22

  • June 29, 2023 08:02

  I agree that a native function to create a Route in Gaia and save or export as a GPX Track would be great. I found a work-around that's kind of kludgy, but works. 

  1 - In Gaia, export your tracks or folder of tracks to GPX and save on your device or computer.

  2 - Go to: https://www.gpsvisualizer.com/getting over it

  3 - On main page choose "Convert to GPX" 

  4 - On next page choose "Upload" and find your saved Gaia GPX file on your device/puter

  5 - Open the Advanced options tab and in Track and Waypoint options select:
  - GPX/CSV routepoints: Convert to tracks only
  - Include waypoints: None
  - Geotag points with time but no position: No

  6 - Go back up to the top and "Convert" 

  7 - Wait for it to crunch, and save the file to your device.

  You "should" be able to open the resulting standard GPX file in Gaia, Mapsource, Basecamp, etc.

  I've not played around much with the color, tagging, geocache, etc options, but have found good results with the options above. 

  Hope this helps. 

  Great I tried your way and it worked.

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  metz_1999

  • July 24, 2023 20:39

  I agree that a native function to create a Route in Gaia and save or export as a GPX Track would be great. I found a work-around that's kind of kludgy, but works. 

  1 - In Gaia, export your tracks or folder of tracks to GPX and save on your device or computer.

  2 - Go to: https://www.gpsvisualizer.com/

  3 - On main page choose "Convert to GPX"

  4 - On next page choose "Upload" and find your saved Gaia GPX file on your device/puter

  5 - Open the Advanced options tab and in Track and Waypoint options select:
  - GPX/CSV routepoints: Convert to tracks only
  - Include waypoints: None
  - Geotag points with time but no position: No

  6 - Go back up to the top and "Convert" 

  7 - Wait for it to crunch, and save the file to your device.

  You "should" be able to open the resulting standard GPX file in Gaia, Mapsource, Basecamp, etc.

  I've not played around much with the color, tagging, geocache, etc options, but have found good results with the options above. 

  Hope this helps. 

  wegger, this is FANTASTIC! I'm now able to create a route in Gaia, convert it to a gpx track, and import it into my Garmin GPS all from the road (as long as I have internet on my phone). 

  Thanks

  I'm a huge fan of Gaia GPS. It's the best phone map app and I've tried a number of them. It would still be great if I could convert a route to a track directly from Gaia.

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  early1828

  • August 10, 2023 03:14

  Wegger- the conversion worked like a champ- thank you.  Imported converted track onto Zumo 396 LMTS through Garmin Basecamp. 

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