Download GPS tracks (MTB) for upload to bike GPS

[lechatnoir]

Apologies in advance if this is covered elsewhere...

 

Anyone out there know where I can download MTB tracks/trails that I can upload to my Garmin?

 

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[nonky]

Apologies in advance if this is covered elsewhere...

 

Anyone out there know where I can download MTB tracks/trails that I can upload to my Garmin?

 

If there's another thread on the Hub, please post the link (also see line #1)

 

Strava?  

 

But you need a Premium account, please note.

[Jaco Steyn]

I do not know how usefull these are, but I bookmarked it some time ago just in case I needed it one day. Maybe you will find it usefull?

 

https://openmtbmap.org/

[Griffin]

http://www.trailforks.com/region/howick-trails-15134/

 

http://www.trailforks.com/help/view/25/

[Raydek]

If you do go the Strava route, these are some links I find useful.

 

1. To download any route from Strava (without premium account).  Past the activity link into the below website.

 

http://strava-tools.raceshape.com/vpu/

 

2. As it downloads in an odd format, the below site allows conversion to a large range of formats.

 

http://www.gpsies.com/convert.do

 

3. If you are wanting to edit the track before using it. This is one of the better programs I have used.

 

https://getadze.com/

 

4.  And then finally, if you have edited/converted the track, it most likely lost all the time info.  So this website adds time/avg speed etc to the track should you want to upload it to your Strava account again or want to ghost a certain time when riding.

 

http://gotoes.org/strava/Add_Timestamps_To_GPX.php

 

Hope that helps.  Otherwise though, I don't believe there is a central database of gpx files, I tried building one with someone a few years back, but it just took up too much time and trails changed to often it became more of a mission than anything else.  At some point I also started adding tracks to Google Earth that anyone would be able to download, but again the process was tedious and I rather wanted to ride.. lol...