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GPS Course Editor

The GPS Course Editor is where race courses are drawn, corrected and shared. A course saved here is a line on the map with an elevation profile and a set of timing points along it, and the event tools that need a course — Map Settings, Map Tracking and Generate Splits — all pick from the courses saved here.

Where to find it

The GPS Course Editor card on the home page. Sign in first; you see your own courses.

Your courses

The first screen lists your saved courses, organised into folders. From there you can open a course, start a new one, or import a GPX, KML, TCX or GeoJSON file as a new course.

To move a course to another folder, use the folder button on its row. To move several at once, tick them and choose Move selected. Either way you pick an existing folder or name a new one. A course keeps its name and its share links when it moves; if the destination already has a course of the same name, that one is left where it was and you are told.

The editor

Opening a course shows the map with four sets of controls around it. Each has its own article:

  • Overview — the layout, and the three edit-mode buttons on the right of the map.
  • Top Menu — naming, undo, import, export and saving.
  • Left Menu — the Points, Timing, Tools and Info panels.
  • Bottom Menu — the distance slider and elevation profile.

Articles in this section

  • Overview How the editor is laid out, and the three edit-mode buttons.
  • Top Menu Naming, undo, import, export and saving.
  • Left Menu The Points, Timing, Tools and Info panels.
  • Bottom Menu The distance slider and the elevation profile.