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Import GPX Files in ViewRanger App

This document provides instructions for importing GPX files from the Reptile Surveyors tools into the ViewRanger GPS app. It outlines downloading GPX files from the member portal, importing them into ViewRanger, and navigating to points of interest marked on the transect. The steps include changing the coordinate type in ViewRanger settings, downloading a GPX file for a survey site, importing it externally, and then navigating between refugia marked on the imported transect.

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Import GPX Files in ViewRanger App

This document provides instructions for importing GPX files from the Reptile Surveyors tools into the ViewRanger GPS app. It outlines downloading GPX files from the member portal, importing them into ViewRanger, and navigating to points of interest marked on the transect. The steps include changing the coordinate type in ViewRanger settings, downloading a GPX file for a survey site, importing it externally, and then navigating between refugia marked on the imported transect.

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Using GPX files with the ViewRanger GPS app

ViewRanger is a free navigation app available on both iOS and Android. This guide will show how to import GPX files from the ‘Reptile Surveyors’
tools on your members login (only accessible for trained surveyors). Before using this guide visit www.viewranger.com/en-gb/get-the-app to
download ViewRanger on your mobile device. Note: The settings in ViewRanger can differ significantly between devices and operating systems and
you may need to adapt the steps in this guide to match your phone.

Before importing any


files, it is best to change
the coordinates type
from the default.
To do this, find ‘settings’
in the ViewRanger menu,
usually by clicking three
dots in the top right of
the main screen.
Click ‘Display’.
Set to ‘National Grid –
Great Britain’
Change ‘Coordinate Type’
to ‘National Grid 10-digit’
Downloading GPX files to your mobile phone

Log in to your members portal via a


browser on your phone at
https://groups.arguk.org/hiwarg
and click ‘Reptile Surveyors’

Click ‘Survey Sites’


Click on the site icon you want to
download the GPX file for.

Click on the GPX button.


Depending on your
device/OS/browser,
you may be presented
with a download
button, click on this to
download the GPX file.

Browse to the location of


Open ViewRanger and click
the downloaded GPX and
the three dots in the top
tap on it. You may find
right of the screen. Then You should be prompted ViewRanger shows the
click on ‘Import/Export’ with three options, click Download folder or Recent
(You may need to scroll ‘import externally’. Files, which makes it much
down).
easier, although this will
depend on the mobile
phone and OS you are
using.
To Navigate, click on the chosen
refugia and click ‘Navigate’ on the
menu that appears.

Depending on your settings, you


may see a bearing menu or a blue
direction icon, follow this to the
refugia.
To end navigation tap the screen/
blue icon and a ‘stop navigate will
appear. Click this to end navigating,
and click another refugia to
ViewRanger will advise The transect of your navigate to there.
you how many “points of chosen site should now be
When complete, click
interest” (refugia in this visible. You can zoom in
‘Close’.
case) and ask if you want and out and navigate to a
to import. Click ‘Yes’. specific refugia.

We hope this guide has been useful. If you have found any steps difficult, create
a post on the HIWARG Facebook group and we will try to help if we can. As
mentioned previously, ViewRanger settings can vary a lot between devices and
operating systems. www.facebook.com/groups/455730808110700

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