One map, built from the real sources#

Public land is mapped by the agencies that manage it, and every agency does it differently. A Forest Service motor vehicle use map, a BLM travel plan and a state OHV system are three different documents in three different formats, and none of them tells you what the next one says.

INVIA unifies them. Forest Service designated routes, the Forest Service system roads that were never printed on a use map, BLM roads and trails, National Park backcountry roads, state OHV systems for California, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Colorado and Utah, and named trails from OpenStreetMap all live on a single layer. Then every line is sorted by the thing a rider actually needs to know: which vehicles are allowed on it.

Six classes: single track, ATV and narrow OHV at 50 inches or less, open to all vehicles, street-legal only, four-wheel-drive high-clearance, and four-wheel-drive where plates are required or the designation needs checking locally. Each class is a switch. Turn one off and every road of that kind disappears from every source at once.

What is mapped runs to 340,000 miles of dirt road and trail, mapped from Forest Service, BLM and state land.

What has been checked by hand is a smaller and different thing. 190 riding areas across 17 states have been gone through by hand, with 413 named single track trails so far. The work is never finished.

A route builder that respects the line#

Click the map and INVIA connects the points, on the road where there is one and in a straight line where there is not. Auto mode tries the road network first, then the trail network, and only then draws straight across open ground. You always know which of the three you are building on.

The line stays where you put it. Distance, a ride-time estimate for your discipline, and a live elevation profile with climb, descent and maximum grade update as you draw. Sections can be rerouted through a point you choose, trimmed out, split into parts and joined back together, and every edit is one step of undo.

Your Garmin, from a browser tab#

Plug in the Garmin, connect it on the Device page, and press send. INVIA works with the older units that mount as a USB drive and with the newer ones that connect like a phone and never appear as a drive at all. It is the only web application outside Garmin that sends files to a Garmin over the media transfer protocol, straight from a browser tab.

Routes arrive as tracks, so the device draws the exact line you planned instead of recalculating it on its own map. Named waypoints arrive as saved places. Route color survives the transfer. Optional direction arrows are drawn into the line itself, so a complicated junction reads correctly on a small screen.

It works both ways. Every track and recorded activity on the device is listed and drawn on a map, and the ones you choose are saved to your library. Nothing is cleared from the device until the import has been verified and you have asked for it.

Riding together#

A meet-up is one screen and a link: name the ride, set the day, attach your routes, and send it to your friends. They tap once to say they are coming, and the routes are there for them to send to their own devices.

An organized event is the whole weekend: registration on your own site, a roster with check-in, routes grouped by day, documents and updates that reach everyone who signed up, a printable code for the riders' meeting, and a live map of the trackers on course. Rider information reaches the people on your roster and nobody else.

Your rides are yours#

Every route and every ride is private until you decide otherwise, and that decision is made one item at a time, never once for your whole account. A shared link shows the map and the numbers; whether anyone can download the file is a separate switch that is off by default. A route you saved from another rider stays theirs: you can ride it and send it to your device, but you cannot export their file.

Plans#

A free account covers route building, storage and a connected device, which is enough to plan a ride and load it onto your GPS. Every account opens with 14 days of Pro and no card is required.

Pro adds the single track and ATV classes, the unpublished Forest Service roads, land boundaries, the Garmin map builder, the device management tools and the library power tools, and removes the limits. It is $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year. An Organizer plan at $79.99 a year includes all of Pro and adds the event toolkit.

The name#

INVIA is Latin: in- meaning without, and via meaning way. It means pathless, the places a road will not reach. The road runs out. The way does not.

Contact#

support@inviagps.com