On the OS Leisure Maps, ensure you are zoomed in to the k scale mapping - the orange section of the zoom bar. The snap to path icon magnet in the tool bar will change to blue to show it is active. Begin creating a new route as normal, and select walking or running to use all paths, or select cycling to limit your route to roads, bridleways and other suitable paths.
Click on the map to create your first point — it will jump to the nearest road or path if needed. Now create your next point. It can be some distance from the first, and a new route will connect the two, following the shortest available route. Snap routing will always follow the shortest suitable path, which may sometimes take you along busy roads or other places you would rather avoid.
You can either drag your last point to a location on the path you want to take, or click on the route to create a new intermediate point and then move it to force the route to go a certain way. If you want to plot a section of your route that does not follow a recognised path, you can easily turn off the snap to route option. This is ideal if you are planning a walk across open country or to reach a specific peak that does not have an official path. You can switch to any other map layer, such as Aerial 3D, to view your route and then switch back to continue planning.
Routes created using the snap tool can be saved in the same way as a normal route. If you export as a GPX file additional points will be added automatically to make a navigable route.
Overview of snap to route. The exclamation marks warn you of potential hazards identified on your automatically generated route. You may want to zoom in or check the other map scales to ensure you are happy with the route shown.
Hazards flagged will include:. Hazard warnings are based on underlying information on the map, not user reports, so will not show issues such as temporary diversions, blocked paths, flooding or weather conditions. Optionally, you can turn on a feature that ensures the last waypoint you have added is centred on screen. Go to your account click your name in the top right , select 'Preferences' and turn on 'move map when plotting points'.
This works better on faster devices with a good internet connection. However, you can view any existing route on the 3D map, and even switch views during route planning to check your route. The map will automatically move to the start location. For a route you are planning: At any point you can switch to the 3D layer to check the terrain, and switch back to continue planning your route.
Your map view may move to try to keep your route in view. Click on 'Routes' in the top menu, then click 'My Routes' in the left menu. Select 'My Routes' to display all of your saved routes, then click 'edit' on the route that you wish to change.
You can add additional points to the end of the route by clicking on the map. You can add intermediate waypoints by clicking on the route, or move existing waypoints by clicking and dragging them. You can also delete waypoints by switching to 'Delete' in the toolbar and clicking on them. Click save from the toolbar to keep your changes or cancel to discard them. The only way to create a copy of a route at the moment is to export as a GPX file and then import again - we are investigating options for creating copies more easily.
If your 'My Routes' folder is empty, you may have been logged out automatically after a period of inactivity. Please login again by clicking 'refresh' or F5 in your browser, or closing and reopening OS Maps. Note that you can only edit your own routes. You will not be able to edit a route created by someone else that you have found using the 'Discover Routes' option. You cannot edit a route created by someone else, as they are still the route owner, even if you add it to favourites.
However, what you can do is create a copy of the route. While creating a route click the 'Style' button on the toolbar to change the route colour, line thickness and transparency. To change an existing route colour, find the route, click 'Edit' from the route panel and edit as above. Click 'Save' to keep your updates. Let go to drop it in the new position.
To remove a waypoint altogether, select the 'Remove' button from the toolbar and click the waypoint to delete. Remember to switch back to 'Plot' once you are done. Select the waypoint on the route and select 'edit'. You can name the waypoint and add additional notes. By default only waypoints with notes are shown in the waypoint list or printed on the route card - use 'Detailed Waypoint View' option to turn on and off whether the complete list of waypoints are shown.
Change these to match your average speeds for the type of terrain you normally cover. For walking and running, we use the basic 'Naismiths Rule' which adds 1 hour for each m of elevation gain or 10 minutes per m. There is no adjustment for descents or difficult terrain such as mud or vegetation, so this is still only an estimate.
For cycling this is a simple speed x distance calculation, so adjust the speed to your average cycling pace and allow for climbs manually. Due to the way that elevation is calculated it works better across a route with more waypoints. When a route is plotted, the elevation profile is determined by calculating points on the terrain using predefined intervals on the length of that route line to get the overall ascent between the waypoints. If the route line is a segment consisting of two waypoints then the ascent will be calculated by taking the centre of that line between the two waypoints, which may not show the correct level of ascent, especially on steep terrain.
When you add another waypoint in between then it will give you a more accurate value for the total ascent because there are more calculating points to calculate the total ascent of that route. All your previously saved routes will be listed. You can sort by activity type, name or date. Ensure you log in to the app with the same username and password. Similarly, any routes you create in the app by either the route planning function or by recording a route will appear in your routes list.
Your mobile device will have to connect to the internet to allow routes to be synchronised. First, make sure you have completed and saved your route. When saving, ensure the route visibility is set to 'Everyone'. If you need to change the route visibility, click 'Edit' in the top left, then the 'Save' button to bring up the options, and change the visibility setting before clicking the big 'Save' button at the bottom of the panel.
On the map, click the 'View route' link on the pop-up. Your route will be shown, and the left hand panel will show the route summary. Beneath the route summary, click the 'Share' option to share the route. Sharing by email will send an email from OS to the recipient. Facebook and Twitter sharing will require that you are already logged in to your account, or will request your login details.
You can also share the route manually just by copying the URL from the address bar of your browser. This is ideal if you want to share on a blog or a different social media network.
Users following a link will open OS Maps on Standard Map with the route in view, even if they are not currently registered or logged in. Premium subscribers will be able to switch to other map layers, but no-one is able to edit your route. Once you have created and saved your route, find it in the 'My Routes' list. Click the route to show it on the map. OS Maps does not have the ability to use the Garmin Connect software to automatically move routes into a connected Garmin device.
This is because Garmin Connect requires browser plugins, which most modern browsers will no longer allow. For the moment you can upload the GPX file manually or use the Garmin Basecamp software to transfer the file, and once Garmin make new software available we will investigate adding it to OS Maps. Your system may not recognise a. GPX file and ask you to associate a program with it.
The easiest is usually Notepad, but make sure when you save the GPX file, the extention the bit after the file name is not change to. Click 'Choose File' to find the file on your hard drive or connected device memory then 'Save' to create the route. Once you have imported a route it appears in the 'My Routes' list. You can update the route name, line style and more by selecting 'Edit route details' and editing it using these instructions. Imported GPX files do not use the timestamps from the file if available to calculate route estimated times, but instead calculate it based on the activity and your personal average speed settings set in 'Preferences'.
This may be revised in a future release. GPX files come in a wide range of versions. We've added the ability to handle the most common types, but it may not be able to understand some formats. At the moment, we have set a maximum size of 10MB. If your GPX file is larger than this, reduce the size by splitting the route into two or more files, or by reducing the number of waypoints or the amount of information stored for each waypoint.
Most GPS software packages have the ability to do this. Routes with over waypoints will be generalised to reduce the total waypoint count using the Douglas-Peucker algorithm, which removes unnecessary waypoints without changing the overall route. If you believe there is a problem with any particular route published on OS Maps you can tell us about it. For example, you may believe that someone has uploaded a route without the permission of the copyright owner; you may believe that a route encourages the public to cross over private land where there are no public rights of way; or the route breaches some other laws, code or regulations.
Please contact the Customer Service Centre , providing the URL of the route concerned and we can then investigate further and if we believe it is appropriate the route may be taken down in accordance with our Take Down Procedure described in Section 1.
Start the 'My Activities' distance counter by selecting it your user panel. Select your name in the top right, and from the drop-down menu select 'My Activities'. There are four different ways to add miles to the counter:. In 'My Activity', find the activity to remove from the history list and click the 'remove' button. To print the current map view or route, ensure the area you wish to print is currently visible on screen, and click the 'Print' button on the toolbar.
The map will print the current layer selected - you can still switch layers using the layer switch button. For the leisure maps it will default to printing the current scale, but will allow you to override this to choose a different scale. The print area preview will show the current extent of the map that will be printed. Zooming in or changing the paper size or orientation will change the area covered by the print. A3 options are available for Premium subscribers only. Grid references are only shown on 'to scale' prints.
Tick 'Show Waypoints' to show the named waypoints on the map. Once you are happy with the area selected click 'Preview' to see a fully-rendered preview of your map, or 'Print' to print immediately. Printing in OS Maps. By default you will print whatever map scale and type is visible on screen at the time.
Change map layer and zoom in to show the area and map type desired. For the leisure maps, the zoom bar shows the current map type selected.
Grey is the 'standard' map, blue is million, green is k Road map, purple is the K scale Landranger map and orange is the k Explorer map. You can print to exact scale by selecting the 'Print to scale' option from the print panel, and confirming the scale to use. We have deliberately limited the maximum area you can print on the 25K or 50K maps so that the detail is still visible, even if you use the 'fit to page' option.
If your route will not fit on a page, you can either use a printer that supports A3 printing if you have access to one or print the route on multiple sheets of paper. To print on multiple sheets of paper, drag the map on screen to select the first part of the route and print.
Drag the map to cover the next area - use the print area overview to help you create a small overlap with the previous print - and print again, then repeat as necessary. This will allow you to print large maps for long routes, but still use a scale that shows all the details. When setting your print, ensure you select the 'Print map to scale option' to print the current scale. However, this will sometimes create a print that is not exactly or - you can check using the scale rule at the bottom of your map.
Every browser and printer uses slightly different settings, so here are some things to try to get an exact scale print:. The elevation profile appears on the first page of the route card - you can use your printer options to print just that page if required.
There are many variations in how printers work, and for some, after choosing to print in landscape in OS Maps, your may have to leave the print settings in the print dialog in portrait mode, still selecting A4 or A3. Test your particular setup by using print preview or printing in black and white before printing in full colour. Use the 'Print using system dialog' or similar option to access your printer settings to check and adjust them.
Most of the print problems are caused by the print driver settings not matching the options set in OS Maps:. As you are printing from a web browser, ensure you are using the latest version, and always print by using the print function in OS Maps, not the browser print function.
Even if you require a landscape print, most printers need to be left in 'portrait' mode. If your problem persists, try clearing your cookies and cache using these instructions. Of course, you will need an A3 printer plus suitable paper to create an A3 size print! On the OS map app, I have yet to successfully import a gpx. I desperately needed to use a gpx on the weekend, it was recorded via some other app and was well over the kb limit so I split it in two using route converter, still would not work.
I recorded a 60k ride on sunday, which will not import to the pc version due to it being over kb…. Molgrips ,. Did this go anywhere? If I email the. This topic has 73 replies, 31 voices, and was last updated 5 years ago by Trailseeker. Viewing 40 posts - 1 through 40 of 74 total. Thanks Posted 6 years ago. Posted 6 years ago. Nana Free Member. Stoner Free Member.
Rio Full Member. Junkyard Free Member. MMMtracker is still free and still what i use Posted 6 years ago. Well until some one closes the loop hole Posted 6 years ago. Another vote for backcountry navigator… Any os maps offline for less than a tenner Posted 6 years ago. Nobeerinthefridge Free Member. Tick Posted 6 years ago. Simon Full Member.
OR heaven forbid which one works with a code on a new map… and It wont direct a route automatically along a path. Completely agree. DiscJockey Free Member. Thanks for the replies. If you uninstall the app, Android will delete the folder on the SD card, potentially loosing all your data.
It can read maps from the ViewRanger folder at the top of the SD card or internal storage, but cannot save new maps there. Make sure 'write new data to' is set to SD card. If you need to change it, then afterwards; close the app with the back key, then in the device settings, application manger, find and force close the ViewRanger app or restart the device.
This is very important. Also, you may need to download a free overview map, within the app, before it creates the new folder on the SD card. Back in the app Menu tab in green bar , Settings, Storage, Maps folder. Make a note of the path to the maps folder on the SD card and put the maps into that folder. After moving the maps, close the app, then in the device settings, application manger, find and force close the ViewRanger app or restart the device.
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