Motorcycle Adventures: POI2PIC Collections

Instructions: Creating collections (grouping)

If you have read all my articles you can generate a day route like below, including:

A route (in purple) accompanied by a track behind it (in black)
Blue (alternative/optional) and green (offroad) tracks
POIs telling you more about the alternative/optional/cut off/offroad routes
Usefull POIs accompanied with text and a symbol
One combined GPX (collection) per day, for easy uploading to your XT/XT2

Example files

Input files: example_routes.zip / view in MRA
Output file: Day 1.gpx
Preview: GPX Viewer

Legend / convention

The tool is designed to be self-explanatory if you read all the information on the page. The color and icon 'convention' is one made up by me. Feel free to provide comments or suggestions.

Content of a GPX file per day (collection)
The main track (black)
Alternative routes or optional loops (blue)
Offroad routes (green)
Short-cuts (red)
POIs with information about the optional tracks and shortcuts. The triangle symbol () represents a choice on your route, meaning you have to decide to follow the main track or go for an alternative/optional, offroad or shortcut track. The pin symbol () means you are back on the main track.
POIs with general information and symbols. The keywords can be found by the Basic mapping, or the symbol ID (#123) can be used.	Available symbols

Combining GPX file to one GPX per day

Based of the first character of you GPX file, GPX files can be combined. So if you use the daynumber as a first character, you'll get the collection per day (a max. of 9 days can be combined). The main track color is black and are other tracks will be blue, unless you put in a keyword to change this:
Keyword: 'offroad' -> Green
Keyword: 'cut-off' -> Red
Keyword: 'shortcut' -> Red

Naming your routes consequently in your routeplanner makes the combing an easy task whenever you need them.

GPX file	Combined file	Track color	Trigger
10 Main Route for the day 1	Day 1.gpx		First GPX file (alfabetically) with daynumber 1
11 Optional route 1.gpx	Day 1.gpx		Default color (except for main route)
12 Alternative route 1.gpx	Day 1.gpx		Default color (except for main route)
13 Alternative route 2.gpx	Day 1.gpx		Default color (except for main route)
14 Shortcut route.gpx	Day 1.gpx		The keyword 'shortcut' or 'cut-off' in the filename
15 Offroad part 1.gpx	Day 1.gpx		The keyword 'offroad' in the filename
16 Offroad part 2.gpx	Day 1.gpx		The keyword 'offroad' in the filename
20 Main Route for the day 2.gpx	Day 2.gpx		First GPX file (alfabetically) with daynumber 2
30 Main Route for the day 3.gpx	Day 3.gpx		First GPX file (alfabetically) with daynumber 3
31 Optional route 1.gpx	Day 3.gpx		Default color (except for main route)
32 Alternative route 1.gpx	Day 3.gpx		Default color (except for main route)

Normaly I do not include cut-off tracks, because they are often just a straight road and I can always select the 'End cut-off' POI ( Pin, Red ) on your XT/XT2 and select 'navigate to'.

Advanced Settings in GPX File

To prevent setting the form variables in the form all the time, you can also set them within your GPX file. In MRA, the route description can be used for this:

[groupname:Day #]
[groupchar:2]
[color:black]

Note that the first settings can only be set once (in the first GPX file). The color can be set per GPX file. In the logfile of POI2PIC (shown at the end of the result page), you can see if and how these settings are processed.

IMPORTANT: A GPX can only have a description in a route and not at a track. So, make sure you download the GPX in version 1.1, including the route (the route will be deleted afterward anyway).