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Ride With GPS
Central Indiana Cycling uses Ride With GPS to organize our rides and share route information. If you join as a Central Indiana Cycling member, you’ll have access to over 1,300 routes and navigation tools in Ride With GPS.
Ride Calendar View
The Central Indiana Cycling Ride Calendar is created and maintained in Ride With GPS. Each ride typically has attached route map(s) that can be used with the Ride With GPS phone app navigation tool or exported for use with your navigation device.
How to Use Ride With GPS
Central Indiana Cycling has a RideWithGPS.com club account. This club account provides a host of tools to create route maps and cue sheets.
Central Indiana Cycling members will be able to view our routes and use the Ride With GPS navigation phone app. Members can download the routes as a GPX file to use them with a Strava or Garmin device.
To get access to Ride With GPS (as a member) you need to connect your personal account with the club account. When you sign up as a member, we include that link in the members-only benefits. We also send out this link in the periodic membership emails.
The Central Indiana Cycling club account with RideWithGPS.com is a part of your member benefits. You may choose to pay for a monthly Ride With GPS account, if you want to access additional features.
Members need to have an individual profile at RideWithGPS.com. There is no charge for an individual account. You do not need to upgrade your individual account to access the basic club-access features of Ride With GPS. When you join as a member, we send you an email that includes the members-only link for connecting your individual account to the club account.
Ride With GPS Club Benefits – More Info Here
Benefits include:
- Turn-by-turn navigation on the mobile app (iPhone and Android apps)
- Offline maps on the mobile app
- Estimated Time
- Advanced Turn Notifications
- Print PDF Maps & Cue sheets
Many Garmin cycling devices and other GPS units can download TCX and GPX tracks for turn-by-turn instructions.
Special Access for Ride Leaders – Ride leaders have the access to create the maps used for Central Indiana Cycling rides. All general members can view those maps, use navigation on those routes, and download GPX files, but do not have the rights to create or change the routes.
The Route Library is the central location to organize and share Central Indiana Cycling. Tags for Weekend, Repeating, and Special Events rides provide organization, and manage route views. There is also a Map-Based Route View.
Starting Navigation on Ride With GPS Routes – After being approved as a club member, download and install the free mobile app on your phone. Sign into the app using the same e-mail address and password that you used on the website. Find the route or event, select that, and start navigation.