Finding off-tarmac trails. TrailVidz.com - Help converting What Three Words to GPX, please

[Kazakdan]

Finding off-tarmac trails for the GS in UK is a challenge. Some are gravel but some turn into enduro with no warning.
But I am using a new site called TrailVidz.com
It has revolutionised my finding trails.

You can navigate to each trail head using Google and W3W. There are pictures and video of many and a ratings system for easy medium and hard.

I go out solo mostly and so this has given me confidence that I am not going to get stuck in some unexpected crevice of a lane.

It doesn't have a GPX creation option. I want to be able to use the W3W points in a list to make a GPX.
Is there a navigation app out there which will let me add a list of W3W to make a GPX file?

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Moved from Travel and OP’s question highlighted.

Richard

 

[Wapping]

want to be able to use the W3W points in a list to make a GPX.
Is there a navigation app out there which will let me add a list of W3W to make a GPX file?

A better question might be, “Which app is best for creating off-road tracks / routes to follow on a GPX device?”. Why? Because most GPX route creation app’s are on-road centric.

There’s a dedicated GPX section, where bods have been seeking this holy grail. Take a look.

PS Try a Google of:

Google Search

 

[Kazakdan]

A better question might be, “Which app is best for creating off-road tracks / routes to follow on a GPX device?”. Why? Because most GPX route creation app’s are on-road centric.

There’s a dedicated GPX section, where bods have been seeking this holy grail. Take a look.

PS Try a Google of:

Google Search

Clearly I will have tried Google. I have put in so many searches, there is nothing out there I can find.

 

[Wapping]

Is this any good:

Wayfarer GPX + what3words For Route Planning - Watch & Navy

How to use what3words addresses to create routes, measure distances and estimate travel times with quickness and precision.

watchandnavy.com

Google tells you how to create waypoints from What Three Words’ latitude and longitude positions.

Lots of software can accept latitude and longitude data. Then just join the points up. You’ll maybe / probably be reduced to straight lines between the points, but off-road that might not matter too much.

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Your best place for information is the GPS section, not Travel. I’ve cut and moved your question / appeal for help.

Richard

 

[Kritou]

Finding off-tarmac trails for the GS in UK is a challenge. Some are gravel but some turn into enduro with no warning.
But I am using a new site called TrailVidz.com
It has revolutionised my finding trails.

You can navigate to each trail head using Google and W3W. There are pictures and video of many and a ratings system for easy medium and hard.

I go out solo mostly and so this has given me confidence that I am not going to get stuck in some unexpected crevice of a lane.

It doesn't have a GPX creation option. I want to be able to use the W3W points in a list to make a GPX.
Is there a navigation app out there which will let me add a list of W3W to make a GPX file?

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Moved from Travel and OP’s question highlighted.

Richard

Do you have or are you using an iOS device?

 

[Berin]

Clearly I will have tried Google. I have put in so many searches, there is nothing out there I can find.

All UK trails are marked on OS Maps, so as long as you have W3W (which you can read as a coordinate) you can find the start and end easily and the route of the BOAT or UCR will be shown on the OS map.

Memory Map is an online map with IOS and Android apps and can be used to both create a GPX and navigate it, as does Outdoor Active.

Memory Map
Outdoor Active

Creating a track out a few W3W co-ordinates without an underlying map is going to and in tears.

 

[Wapping]

Oo

OS Maps

Can you translate OS Maps, please. Some here use it to refer to Ordnance Survey Maps, others to Open Street Maps.

 

[Kazakdan]

Is this any good:

Wayfarer GPX + what3words For Route Planning - Watch & Navy

How to use what3words addresses to create routes, measure distances and estimate travel times with quickness and precision.

watchandnavy.com

Google tells you how to create waypoints from What Three Words’ latitude and longitude positions.

Lots of software can accept latitude and longitude data. Then just join the points up. You’ll maybe / probably be reduced to straight lines between the points, but off-road that might not matter too much.

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Your best place for information is the GPS section, not Travel. I’ve cut and moved your question / appeal for help.

Richard

I want to input the W3W.
The TrailVidz thing shows each trail entry with a pin which has the w3w. I want to copy and paste these as waypoints into a navigator to get a GPX file.

I tuned out of this thread after the first reply was condescending telling me to change my question and do a Google search. Obviously I have searched Google and I can't find answers anywhere.

I specifically want to use ready made listed W3W is waypoints. TrailVIdz doesn't show the co-ords. W3W charge per click for changing w3w to co-ords so I suspect that is why there are no apps out there offering w3w nav points because it will cost them thousands.

I would pay someone to create a page of code to create a site where I can paste the w3w waypoints and have it spit out a GPX of say 40 waypoints. It should be simple to the right coder.

 

[Wapping]

 

[Berin]

I want to input the W3W.
The TrailVidz thing shows each trail entry with a pin which has the w3w. I want to copy and paste these as waypoints into a navigator to get a GPX file.

I tuned out of this thread after the first reply was condescending telling me to change my question and do a Google search. Obviously I have searched Google and I can't find answers anywhere.

I specifically want to use ready made listed W3W is waypoints. TrailVIdz doesn't show the co-ords. W3W charge per click for changing w3w to co-ords so I suspect that is why there are no apps out there offering w3w nav points because it will cost them thousands.

I would pay someone to create a page of code to create a site where I can paste the w3w waypoints and have it spit out a GPX of say 40 waypoints. It should be simple to the right coder.

 

[Berin]

W3W gives a coordinate in any format you want, but I’m struggling why you want to make a single point into a gpx file. Just put the coordinate into your sat nav and it will take you to that point.

Or, from the w3w just hit navigate to open a navigation app on your phone.

 

[Wapping]

but I’m struggling why you want to make a single point into a gpx file.

I think the fellow wants to create ‘routes’ (basically straight lines) between the points, to then display on a map?

BaseCamp and / or MyRoute will do this.

 

[Wapping]

ion and do a Google search.

The link took you to webpages, telling you how to change What 3 Words into GPX points. An operation necessary to kick off your quest.

 

[Berin]

The link took you to webpages, telling you how to change What 3 Words into GPX points. An operation necessary to kick off your quest.

The picture I posted shows how you get a coordinate in W3W. It does it in the app itself.

As you said, Myroute or Basecamp can plot a route or track just by clicking, but GPX studio also does this and for free. Memory map or outdoor active do the same for a few but have the advantage of being able to look at the trail on an OS map.

I’m not paying to look at the Trailvidz thing, but it looks like it just gives a W3W location at the start of the trail.

 

[Wapping]

I get this now, I think:

The fellow wants to insert the three words of ‘What 3 Words’ into an app:

A. Then have the app convert the three words into a geocode.

B. Then he adds a second, third, fourth and so on three words, having the same app convert all the individual three words into geocodes.

C. Then have the app join the geocode points up, into a ‘track’, for him to follow.

Is that correct, OP?

 

[Wapping]

RouteXL maybe does some of what the OP would like, except that (like most applications) it is targeted to on-road users. Kurviger, too. This one, maybe too but it only spits out on-road routing.

How Can I Create a What3Words Map? - Maptitude Learning Portal

You can use What3Words in your mapping work by using Maptitude GIS software. Step-by-step tutorial on setting up What3Words Maptitude integration and mapping with What3Words.

www.caliper.com

The work around would be to take the GPX file and manipulate (drag and pin) the route to follow the off-road course the op wants to take.

 

[Deleted account 250722001]

or you could just load the WTW app and it gives you the geo-coordinates.
Touch and hold them and they get copied to clip board. Add to BC or Excel or the like and repeat- then save file.
Doddle and free.
And if you need more precision then there are Topo maps you can buy to fine tune things (or use basic osm ones )


you can even share them etc.

 

[Berin]

or you could just load the WTW app and it gives you the geo-coordinates.
Touch and hold them and they get copied to clip board. Add to BC or Excel or the like and repeat- then save file.
Doddle and free.
And if you need more precision then there are Topo maps you can buy to fine tune things (or use basic osm ones )
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you can even share them etc.

Like I said back in #11 and #14.

But what a faff, if Wapping’s interpretation is correct, when a route on a UCR, BOAT or ORPA can be so easily in Memory-Map or Outdoor active with the OS maps.

 

[Deleted account 250722001]

The OP wants a gpx file to place in his navigator.

That means he has to either manually make waypoints to input into his file, or collate them by electronic means.
He stated 40 points so not a years' work then.
You don't really need a huge amount of points on trails - just some at critical places.
Good topograhy map reading skills will help whether these are on paper or electronic display.

 

[JoeBiff]

The TrailVidz thing shows each trail entry with a pin which has the w3w. I want to copy and paste these as waypoints into a navigator to get a GPX file.

Why don’t you use Google Earth and create your own GPX file for your navigator?
Quite easily done, for what you seem to be after….

Edit to add: you can also create the route/track in OS app, which can be mounted on your machine. The subs for OS are about £20/25 pa and you get to access the whole of the UKs OS mapping.

Using W3W seems unnecessarily complicated, if you don’t mind me saying.