How To Load A Walkhighlands Route Into Your GPS

An alternative that avoids the effort of programming your own route (and even owning the digital mapping) is to load a route from Walkhighlands to your GPS. This can also have the advantage that most routes on the site can take into account paths that exist on the ground but not on OS maps.

If you use Quo, simply right click on 'Open this walk in Quo' from our page for your chosen and save the file to your computer; you can then open it using Quo to look at it or transfer it to your GPS.

Downloading a GPS file

If you are using another manufacturer's mapping software, right click on 'Open this walk in GPX format' and again save the file to your computer. GPX is a standard format that can be imported into the latest versions of Memory Map, Anquet etc.

If you don't have any mapping software, you can still open the GPX file using free software which won't let you look at the route on an Ordnance Survey map but which will let you transfer it to your GPS. EasyGPS is one such program and can be downloaded from http://www.easygps.com/. We've tried this software ourselves and have had no problems with it but as with any software from a third party we cannot offer any guarantees that it is safe to install on your PC.

If you are using a Satmap Active 10 you can still download our routes onto it using your computer and the supplied cable. Again you should right click on 'Open this walk in GPX format' and save the file to your computer. You can then download a program called SatSync from Satmap's own website. Open SatSync, connect your Satmap Active10 to your PC (it does come with a cable!) and choose to import the GPX file for the route. You can then choose to transfer it to the device.