The .gpx file that we send by email to the crews is the result of dozens of hours of work spent on maps and physically spent on the territory, with the aim of choosing for you only the most beautiful and safe roads possible. The fixed route provided by the organization is the added value of RaidTribe events. Receiving a carefully studied path that you will only have to follow is completely different from entering a location on any navigator and saying “take me there”. In fact, if you ask a navigator to take you to a specific place he does it, but it is he who decides the way, not you. Navigators do not take into account the purpose of your trip or that a scenic route is preferable rather than the shortest, they do not take into account traffic flows and in general, trust us, a million other things. Basically, when you tell the navigator “take me there”, you put yourself in his hands, without knowing in detail the route you will be asked to take. In RaidTribe events the goal is fun and this means not only covering the distance between the starting point of the event and its arrival, but doing it in the most spectacular and safe way possible, using only the most beautiful and safe roads, chosen precisely by our staff thanks to numerous inspections on the territory and cartographic research. This is exactly the reason why we do not limit ourselves to simply telling you to go from A to B, (for this a simple navigator would be enough) as happens in many adventure raids in which, using the excuse of total autonomy, the staff don’t take the task of plotting the best possible route, but instead provide you with a file that will take you, curve after curve, until the challenge is completed. Just upload the file to your GPS or Google Maps and you can follow it without problems, but with a route chosen and traced by people who have been involved in adventures for over 20 years and with the aim of making you live a unique experience, not by an algorithm. To follow the path indicated by the organization you have two options, at your discretion: – use a GPS – use a smartphone GPS. If you intend to follow the route via a GPS device, since you already have the device or intend to buy one, you simply have to connect the GPS to the computer where you downloaded the track (GPX file) and once you have identified the file folder on the GPS upload the file GPX. When the device restarts you should see the track we have sent you and at that point it will be sufficient to select it and follow the route on the map, with a navigation that looks a lot like the classic road navigators. SMARTPHONE. If you have chosen to follow the route via your smartphone, you will have to upload the track (.gpx file) not to your phone, but by creating a new map on Google Maps, starting from the gpx file you will receive. Don’t panic, here’s how: Access Google Maps (do it from a PC) using any browser and log in to your Google account. At the top left click on the striped menu: From the menu choose “Your places”: From the next menu, on the right side of the menu, choose “MAPS”: In the next menu, at the bottom of the page, choose “CREATE MAP” and On the next page, in the left menu, choose IMPORT: Then select the gpx file sent by the organization and drag it (or add it from the folder where the file is located) into the following screen: Once Google Maps has processed the file you will see the map with the entire route at your disposal (blue line): The advantage of viewing the route provided by the organization by creating your own map, rather than simply following it from Google Maps, is that of being able to add notes, comments and flags marking the route at certain points on the map. For example, once you have received the path of the event you have discovered that along the track there is a restaurant that you do not want to miss, in this case you just need to use the tools that Google provides you to insert, in a specific point of the path , a flag that will remind you, once you get there, to stop. Use the tools menu: and select the black flag to insert the waypoints you want into the route: In this way you will have the possibility to insert useful points that will be useful (or tasty) along the way, as well as places to sleep or assistance points. Once you have created the map, name it as you like and save it: From now on you will always find it available on your Google Drive (app to download for free on your phone) and you can thus view and follow it whenever you want, simply by clicking on it, with the automatic opening of the Google Maps app (also installed on your phone) Now all that remains is to have fun on the most beautiful roads we have chosen for you and if you are wondering how to position the smartphone on the vespa so that you can easily read the route, in point 17 of the faq you will also find the answer to this.