Firsr of all, great work, I really like the app and to have a map on my watch is awesome.
It would be nice to have a companion app to upload a gpx track on my watch.
I’m planning my routes with locus maps and export the gpx file to my watch via the locus add on for garmin. Then I could start the course from my watch.
So I am thinking of something like this for mappily. Or you have a the opportunity to export the file from an own app,where you can manage your tracks.
Apologies for the late reply. Notifications are turned off, but I’ll fix that so we see these messages!
I find the best software for plotting routes is ridewithgps.com. We have recently updated the mappily.info website so you can link your account (and it will start to sync with the watch automatically once the next version of the app is released.).
Once that’s linked you can create a route on ridewithgps.com and it will immediately appear in the list on your watch, no syncing required. The version of the app to support this is just being tested and will be released in a few days. For now you can sync the routes using the sync button on the ‘Connect’ tab at mappily.info.
We’ve also added Strava.com and will linking to other sites such as mapmyrun.com in due course.
That’s really a useful feature. I created an account at ridewithgps.com and so far it’s a nice route planner. I also use komoot (which is, i think a german route planner). Are you planning to include this one as well?
We rely on the website exposing that information programmatically so we can populate the routes. Strava, RideWithGPS and RunKeeper do this, but a number of others (including Garmin surprisingly) do not.
