How to use .gpx with OS Maps app

Allan Hainey

17 March 2022 19:02 Edited

Hi,

The FAQ on how to navigate and not get lost says:

"To follow Slow Ways routes on a phone or device, download them onto a navigation app like OS Maps, MapMyWalk, Strava or Viewranger."

How do I do this?

I have the OS Maps app and a downloaded OS map for the area I want to walk on my android phone. How do I add the .gpx file to the OS Maps app? Does it need to go into a particular folder?

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  Ross

  17 March 2022 19:06 Edited

  Hi Allan, if you go to your selected slowway on the slowways site and download the gpx file onto your phone, my phone used to show a message saying download completed. I would then tap this message and I could open it up in OS maps. I then save it as a route.

  Lately, it does not show a downloaded message so I go to the settings in my browser and open the downloads folder, then open the gpx file from there and choose open in OS maps.

  Hope that helps

  Ross

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  Allan Hainey

  17 March 2022 19:08

  Thanks Ross, I'll give that a try.

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  Allan Hainey

  17 March 2022 19:36 Edited

  That's worked great, just needed to open the file with OS Maps.

  I guess this leads on to another question, is it possible to download an entire web of routes for a particular place in one .gpx file. I'm currently going through downloading all the routes going through my town & it's a little laborious.

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  Lynn Jackson

  19 March 2022 09:38 Edited

  No, not unless the route has been captured from beginning to end within the one gpx file.

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  Cristie Moore

  22 March 2022 14:19

  Downloading a web as one gpx file is something we're currently developing.  I'm not sure of the timescales but it is on it's way.

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