Draw and Modify Tracks Easily with GPSies.com

Finally! An incredibly easy way to draw new tracks and modify existing ones to and from Garmin fitness devices! Our pals at GPSies.com have integrated the Garmin Communicator Plugin even further. The site provides a user-friendly way to find fitness tracks from their growing community and download them in various formats.

In addition to their upload and download features, they’ve recently added a very useful and easy to use feature that allows you to modify imported tracks by manipulating the trackpoints on a map, and to draw out new tracks by placing trackpoints on the map.  Try it out now or keep reading to see how.

Here’s a track I drew of my usual Tiburon Bayside run:

Best of all, GPSies.com allows importing from and exporting to various track formats, including Garmin fitness formats (i.e. TCX and CRS). This allows you to write your customized track to your Garmin fitness device, or import and modify an existing track from your Garmin device and re-export it to one of the many other format types supported by the application.

To export your track and get it onto your Garmin device, select “Garmin Course TCX” or “Garmin Course CRS” from the Export file drop-down menu:

Then click on “Export to Garmin GPS” in the same panel. Don’t forget to name the track in the Settings panel before exporting.

Being able to modify existing tracks is incredibly useful for when you perhaps don’t finish your complete course when using your device (or accidentally turn off your device during the activity), or want to use an alternative path based on an existing track. GPSies.com allows you to do this by importing your recorded track from your device so that you can edit it on the map.

To import a track from your Garmin device, click on “Import from Garmin GPS” in the Import panel:

Then select the track you want to import after retrieving all data from the device:

After selecting, click on “>> Select track”, and your track will be editable on the GPSies page.

Try it out for yourself!