Ride With GPS

[WhoAmI]

I use Ride With GPS (RWGPS) frequently to plot my rides and send them to my Wahoo Roam to load then follow.  Sometimes, a trail or connection is missing, and I have to switch to drawing a line, which is cumbersome when drawing a trail.  I found that you can add trails on Open Street Map (OSM,) as RWGPS uses data from this site (and Google Maps) and pulls the data about every other week from those sources.  

 

If you use RWGPS and find yourself having to draw lines instead of following trails, create an account on OSM and get to work!  It's not the most intuitive, and there is a tutorial.  Once you figure it out, it's not difficult.

Edited February 24 by WhoAmI

[RedRider3141]

With RWGPS, is evreything paid or are you able to send data to your Wahoo without a subscription? I logged in, made a few routes and then tried uding the app but it wants money to actually use the routes. 

[Taco Man]

as an FYI I have free Trailforks and I find trails, routes or create my own.  Download the GPX and upload to my Garmin.

Now this week I was at an unfamiliar trail head (Jack Brookes Park) and I somehow loaded League City and spent 15 minutes wandering around a trail thinking it would sync.  Finally realized my error.

[mack_turtle]

it's a bit convoluted, but if you save the route as a gpx file someplace that you can get to it on your phone (Google Drive for me), then open the file on your phone using your cycling app (Garmin Connect, Elemnt, etc), the map should appear on your head unit. I don't have a paid account, but this is what the RWGPS interface looks like on my laptop:

 

Otherwise, you can save the file:

Upload the file to a cloud storage app, open the storage app on my phone (Drive) and find the file.

tap the three dots and that give you the option to "open with"

pick the app that is going to send your route to your bike computer. in my case, the Elemnt app.

yes, of course I want to import the route.

the route appears in the app, which will then sync with your bike computer.

 

Edited March 8 by mack_turtle

[WhoAmI]

On 3/6/2025 at 9:25 AM, RedRider3141 said:

With RWGPS, is evreything paid or are you able to send data to your Wahoo without a subscription? I logged in, made a few routes and then tried uding the app but it wants money to actually use the routes. 

I am not paying to use the app.  I create the route in a browser on my PC then save and upload it.  When I start and sync my Wahoo Roam, the route is there.

[WhoAmI]

Also, the purpose of the post was to let people know that you can add data in Open Street Maps that will then be added to RWGPS.  I find this super useful b/c I connect through green spaces and other places where there is no connecting line in RWGPS, which means I have to draw the trail or line every time.  Adding it to OSM means it'll always be on RWGPS.