GPX sharing

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but I've been looking around to see if there was any repository with GPX tracks people share but I don't seem to see one.

What do you guys think? Would this go perhaps in a regional? Would not be too hard to load a bunch of small gpx files online to share and would be really cool to see what everyone else is generating.

 

That would be great idea. But i thin most people are using like GAIA gps software and free tracks that are included, i am definitely game.

 

www.trailsoffroad.com has over 1400 trails with free GPX for each trail and trail reviews. There is free access and an all access paid membership available, both can download the GPX files.

 

I'm using that app as well and load some tracks from trailsoffroad.com but there's a lot of stuff that we generate here that would be neat to share. I don't know if a read only dropbox shared folder by state would be cool or what but I can build pretty much anything. I just want it to be simple for everyone to use and share.

 

trailsoffroad.com only has like 2 trails in the Tahoe area (Rubicon, of course, and one other in CA) and a few others along the Sierras. Honestly, that's a pitifully low number. LA has a bunch, though. So at least for my hood, that's not going to be very useful...

I've gotten a lot of trail markers through alltrails, and several others that come up on google searches.

What I typically do is just start googling the trail I'm interested in. Someone, somewhere has likely posted a GPX file, and if not, there are enough maps where you can make your own using Google Earth and tracing the areal imagery. I have several guide books and other trail descriptions with GPS lat/lon, and I can input those into google earth and "connect the dots" too.

The software I use, BackCountry Navigator Pro can directly ingest KML files, too. I think a lot of off-grid GPS Nav apps out there can, at least they should, lol...

If you're not sure of a specific trail, and just want to explore Forest Service roads, get yourself some FS MVUMs (motor vehicle use maps). I also like the National Geographic Trails Illustrated series maps. There are a lot of them for national parks, Forest Service, and others, and they come in that nice water proof (resistant) paper.

 

Yeah I agree, real maps are important. They've made changes recently that I makes the site less attractive.

Like you mentioned, we all have some and I just want to consolidate. I don't think the app i use can pull in KML files but i like google earth, Should be easy to ingest there and then export gpx.

 

I have an Excel macro I found online a while ago that ingests a series of GPS lat/lon to a KML file (which is what I use to start making my own KML files). There are also several online conversion tools to convert from KML to GPX.

https://kml2gpx.com/

I just like that BCNav doesn't need that extra step to convert to gpx first.

 

It looks like Gaia GPS can ingest KML and GPX. Didn't realize that till today.

 

Cool!

I figured they should.

Google Earth will also ingest GPX, which makes visualization really snazzy. I have a layer folder on Earth where I have all my bucket list trails, ones I've done, etc...

 

You could say I'm a map nerd. I import all my stuff into google earth, like trail runs and hikes to see where i was and how i rolled!

 

I kinda make maps for a living...