Tap to identify and pins

Tap a line and INVIA tells you which vehicles the managing agency allows on it. Tap a pin and it tells you what kind of riding a place holds, so you can size up ground you have never seen.

Tapping a road#

Tap a road and the whole road highlights and a sheet opens, so you see how far that designation runs rather than the short piece under your finger.

Tapping works everywhere on Explore and in the builder's Explore mode, so you can identify a line without stopping the route you are drawing.

What the sheet shows depends on which agency mapped the road, because each agency records different things about the routes it manages.

Every MVUM sheet ends with a caveat, because what INVIA draws is a copy of the agency data rather than the legal record: The printed Motor Vehicle Use Map is the legally binding document.

Check the printed map before you ride a Forest Service route, so what you rely on is the document that carries legal weight.

When the sources disagree#

When OpenStreetMap and the federal source disagree about which vehicles a named trail allows, INVIA draws the stricter reading, so the line's color and the class chip follow whichever class allows fewer vehicles. The Class disputed row spells out both readings side by side and names the source of each, so you can tell what the line is claiming and what the other source says. The row also states that the stricter reading is the one being shown.

The closing line of the card changes as well, because a disputed class needs a different warning from a confirmed one. In place of the usual community-mapped note it says the sources disagree on the allowed vehicle, and it asks you to verify the designation locally before you ride.

Difficulty chips#

Difficulty shows on the sheet as a chip rather than a line of text, so you can read how hard a route is without hunting through the fields.

The chips are Easy, Moderate, Difficult and Extreme. A Seasonal chip appears alongside them when the managing agency has designated the route a seasonal one, so the agency's own record is what puts the chip there. You see it on a Forest Service route carrying the seasonal MVUM designation, and on a park road or a state OHV trail the agency has flagged as seasonally closed. You also see it on a BLM route designated limited use, because that designation carries restrictions on when and how the route may be ridden.

The chip never appears on its own, because the sheet also carries a Season row holding the open dates where the agency published them, or a pointer to go and check. On a Forest Service route that pointer reads See the MVUM for dates, and on a park road it reads Check with the park for seasonal closures. On a state OHV trail it reads Check the agency for date restrictions. On a BLM route the row is named Limited use instead, and it reads See the travel plan for restrictions where the agency published no explanation of its own.

Read that row and confirm the dates with the managing agency before you ride, because the chip tells you a restriction exists and only the agency holds the current dates.

The Seasonal chip is independent of the four difficulty chips, so a road can read Seasonal with no difficulty rating at all, and a rated trail can carry no Seasonal chip.

Trail conditions#

The Trail conditions area of the sheet is a placeholder for a feature that is not finished, so it holds two lines and nothing else. Those lines read No trail reports yet. and You'll be able to add reports and photos here soon.

There are no trail reports to show, and nothing in INVIA can file one today, so the next step is to wait for the feature rather than to look for a button.

The area appears only on a card for a road or a trail that belongs to a named route, so many road cards carry no Trail conditions area at all.

The rest of the sheet is unaffected, because trail reports sit in their own area: the class, Surface, Season and Managed by fields are still listed above it.

Pins#

INVIA drops two kinds of pin on the map, ride areas and trail pins, so you can find somewhere to ride by looking rather than by knowing its name first.

When each pin appears#

Pins arrive as you zoom in, because drawing every ride area and every trail pin at once would cover the ground you are trying to read.

The largest ride areas appear first as you zoom in. The smaller ride areas are not missing, and they are held back so a wide view stays readable. Keep zooming and they appear.

Trail pins appear from about zoom 10 and closer. Notable and epic trails appear earlier than that, with mileage on the pin, so you can judge the length of a well-known trail from a wide view. A single-track pin shows a dirt bike. The icon tells you the class before you tap, so you can pick out motorcycle-only trails without opening each card.

Below about zoom 10 you see the notable and epic trails only. The other trail pins are not missing, and nothing is lost by starting from a wide view. Zoom in and the rest of the trail pins appear.

Tapping a trail pin#

Tapping a trail pin gives you the trail's details and its line together, so you can see where a trail runs while you read what it is.

1. Tap a trail pin.
2. Read the card that opens.

The trail's line draws on the map at the same time, so you do not have to search the map for the trail you just read about.

On a Free account, a pin in a locked road class opens its card but leaves its line undrawn, because the line belongs to a class Pro unlocks.

What you see:

• The card opens.
• The card reads {class} lines are not drawn on the Free map. Pro draws them.
• The trail's line is not drawn on the map.

What still works:

• The pin stays on the map.
• The pin still opens its card when you tap it.
• Pins in the classes your account unlocks still draw their lines.
• Tapping the road itself still opens the road sheet.

What to do:

• Upgrade to Pro to draw lines for that class. See Base map and road classes.