Hey everybody, Billy from Billys Bike Adventures, thanks for tuning in today and watching the video.
Now all of us are very well planning our trips for this year, COVID restrictions allowing of
course. Hopefully, fingers crossed that we're all able to get out, enjoy ourselves on our bikes
come the Spring time or late Spring beginning of Summer, which would be awesome.
Now, I am sure that we are planning our trips and we are going to be planning the roads that we are
going to be riding via navigation apps potentially and so stay tuned to Billys Bike Adventures because
what I am going to be doing is in a couple of weeks time reviewing a number of navigations apps,
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Today though, what we are going to be doing is I am going to be showing you how to import
and export GPX files into and out of the BMW navigation Motorrad app. So if that's of some
interest, keep watching and let's get int to it.
Ok so this is the home screen of the BMW Motorrad navigation app. Four icons at the bottom, second one from the left is a map
icon. Now to be able to import a route we need to click on this and it will take you to this screen.
So this way is one of two options of importing a GPX file. On the screen top right hand corner
3 dots, let's click on that and it will bring up 3 options for you to choose from.
The third option is a route import. So let's click on that and go to the next screen.
So what you will see on this screen now, at the bottom first of all we have moved from the map
icon, second one from left at the bottom to the third icon which is your route and rides
icon. Now this is important, the reason I wanted to show you the second icon is that whilst you
can get to the route import via that icon it's essentially going to bring you here anyway.
So from the home screen click the third icon from the left and it brings you to this screen
to be able to route import. Above the blue line at the top,
two icons. The one on the left that's actually your rides icon and that's important as I'll
bring that up later to be able to export a route. So back to the route import now. So click on the
bar that says route import and it will give you the option then to select your location
of where you have your GPX files stored. Click on the one that you want to import
and then import that route. Select it here or deselect the ones you don't want,
import the ones that you do and it will move that GPX file into the BMW Motorrad navigation app.
Now to activate the map, click the right arrow in the map description, that opens up and the
navigation app will now show you what the route looks like on the map in the app.
And from there you can then click on how you want that app to go live. Now you have two buttons at
the bottom here to activate the map so let's have a look at the left button first of all.
This is what it looks like when you press that. So three options now to choose from to activate
the map. Let's talk about them individually. Let's start with 'via start point'. So what this will
do now it will calculate wherever you are in the country and plan a route to the start of the GPX
file that you've downloaded and it will add that to the overall route. So from wherever you are in the
country and include the route or the GPX file that you've downloaded. Now at the bottom you have an
options tab. Now this is really important because whatever your settings are for your options, so
currently I have that set at fast as a route plan, whatever your options are it will calculate your
route to the destination that you're going to with that in mind. So if you've got winding then it
might take you a little bit longer to get to your destination. So just keep that in mind that if
you want to get there directly, you will need to change your settings and here's how you do that.
Top right hand corner three dots, click on those and it brings up this screen.
The you want to choose the navigation settings and it will bring up this screen. Now,
here is where your Motorrad app operates from, so, if you've got fast ticked then all routes
will be planned via the fastest possible route. So if you want to change that, click
the appropriate box and then close the Motorrad app for it to take affect so then the next time
you open it and you plan a route, it will use those settings to get you to your destination.
Now the 'direct route' option, all that will do is plan a route from wherever you are in the country
and take you to the start point of the GPX file that you have downloaded. It won't attach the
actual GPX file route to the journey, just take you to the start point.
And the final option 'from start point'. Now what that will do is just load
the GPX file map that you want to ride and as soon as you click 'go' it will start
running from the start point of that route. So that was the three options for clicking the
left hand button at the bottom of the screen that you see now. If you click the right hand button,
the 'Go' button you get two options that come up. Only two options this time. 'Via start point'
and 'direct route' and they are the same as what I showed you previously.
So that's importing a GPX file. What about exporting a route that you've done or exporting
a GPX file. So we are familiar with this screen you can see at the moment. Top of the import, just
above the route import, there is two icons. You want to click this time the one one on the left
and that is going to take us back to all the rides that you have recorded.
So we are back on our rides screen now and as you can see at the bottom we are on the bottom icon,
the third icon from the left, so that's your rides icon and also your route import icon.
Now what we want to do here is select one of the rides that we have done and
click on the arrow that points to the right
in the description of that particular ride. Click on that and it takes you to this screen.
Now top right hand corner three dots. We want to click on that. And so as you can see from this
list here you have the option to export GPX. So click on that and then that brings up your options
for locations of where you want to save that file and thats as easy as it is about exporting
a GPX file from the BMW Motorrad navigation app.
So I hope that's been useful for you today. You can now import and export GPX files into and out of the BMW Motorrad navigation app. Any questions
or comments leave them underneath the description below and I will get back to you as soon as I can.
For now though, thank you very much for watching and I will catch you again very soon.