Turn By Turn Navigation iPhone

[mk6golf]

Hi all,

I have some new routes plotted in Strava. Is there any way to get these so they give a turn by turn navigation (like a sat nav) either though Strava or a third party app on iPhone? The routes are in unfamiliar locations and I don't really want to be pulling out the phone every 5 mins!

TIA!

 

[mk6golf]

Google Maps app.

Can I import route from Strava?

 

[Markymark]

Google Maps app.

This is ok but it plots the route for you with little choice.

I use rwgps but you need subscription. Plot routes in advance in computer and it synchs. Has benefit of downloading the route so you can use airplane mode which massively saves battery power.

 

[13 rider]

@Katherine using a turn by turn app on her phone hopefully she will pop along and tell you more

 

[Katherine]

I use the paid for ridewithgps. It's $6 a month, but if you are just using a phone rather than a Garmin, it's worth it for me.
You can use other people's routes as well as your own. If you have a gpx file you can load it into the app then trace it, clicking along the line and save it as a new file with cues. You need to do it on a PC. Then log in to it on your phone and download the route to ride it. I have recently started to use ear buds ( I put one in my left ear and leave one dangling tucked into my top) via Bluetooth so I can hear all the turns. The voice cues are much clearer to follow than the Google maps ones. If you want to repeat a ride, (I did a recce for a club ride) then you can record it in the ridewithgps app as you go, then do the trace and click on it on the pc and save it as a route.
There are lots of how to videos and the help desk are indeed very helpful.
I haven't worked out how to upload a ride from strava yet. I've been having two windows open on the pc and visually copying bits I want to do again.

 

[PoisonIvy]

+1 on paid ridewithgps. You can save your ride on Strava as a .gpx (you need to do this on the desktop version) then upload to ridewithgps.

 

[mk6golf]

+1 on paid ridewithgps. You can save your ride on Strava as a .gpx (you need to do this on the desktop version) then upload to ridewithgps.

So to clarify, go onto strava online via desktop, export then send to iPhone for upload to ridewithgps app. Nothing else to do?

 

[PoisonIvy]

So to clarify, go onto strava online via desktop, export then send to iPhone for upload to ridewithgps app. Nothing else to do?

I uploaded via the desktop app on ridewithgps as well - I'm not sure if you can send direct to iPhone but I haven't been using ridewithgps for that long so it might be possible, I just haven't tried uploading that way. Hopefully someone who's been using it longer can clarify.

 

[Katherine]

After you have uploaded the record of the ride gpx file from strava into ridewithgps, you then have to convert it into a route with cues using the copy and trace feature, then save it and only then download it onto your phone.

 

[mk6golf]

After you have uploaded the record of the ride gpx file from strava into ridewithgps, you then have to convert it into a route with cues using the copy and trace feature, then save it and only then download it onto your phone.

Sounds a bit of a faff. Better learn my routes!

 

[Katherine]

Sounds a bit of a faff. Better learn my routes!

It gets quicker with practice. It's worth it for longer rides. I have done too many rides where I've stopped to check the map all the time and found my legs never really got going.