Warehouses of Dual Sport Tracks and Routes

One thing that can greatly help with planning an adventure tour - be it for just a long day through some memorable country, an overnight out and back, or a full fledged multi-day ride - is being able to download the tracks and routes provided by others who have done the ride before. Some of those rides go on to become well known epics - the TAT, for example. And some riders become well known creators of rides.

What is needed is a warehouse containing all these saved routes, preferably in one place, available for searching and downloading. And hopefully, a place where you can upload and share your outstanding rides as well.

The good news is, such a site exists. Several, in fact. Two in particular stand out, both very good, but both with slightly different strengths and weaknesses. So without further ado, here are links to the two sites I use for uploading my tracks for others to download and ride if they wish.

Hopefully, those of you with tracks from your tours, whether it is just a spectacular day ride or a multi-week ride in another country, will contribute to the dual sport ride warehouse.

A handy incidental benefit of these websites is they allow you to embed maps of your rides in ride reports.

So, two sources of dual sport ride information:

Dual Sport Maps - Ride Where You Want To

GPSies - Tracks For Vagabonds

Enjoy!

And contribute...

Thanks

dc4stroke wrote:

Thanks

That is the one thing ADVrider is missing. All those great multi-day ride reports... and no warehouse of saved tracks/routes/waypoints.

Some guys, like Big Dog, willingly share their GPS data with all who will ask. Most probably lose track of their GPS data - one way or the other, it isn't available.

So what a great resource to have a warehouse with more and more routes/tracks added to it all the time. The TAT, CDR? Sure... easy to find GPS data. But think of all the great rides out there that you have no idea of, either because the person doing the ride wasn't a ride report kind of guy, or because they wrote a ride report, but you can't determine the exact route from what they wrote.

I have a bit over 20 rides/tracks uploaded to those GPS data warehouses now; hope to increase that number quite a bit once riding season is upon us. Up here at 6000+ feet... sometimes you have to wait a while...