Pins, tap a road and layers

Explore draws two pin layers and the INVIA Base Map on top of the community routes. The Layers button switches each one on and off.

Each layer answers a different question, so you can turn off the ones you are not using and read the ones you are.

Pins#

INVIA's curated riding areas and trails sit on top of the community routes, so a region still shows you where the riding is even when no rider has posted a route there.

The pins arrive in stages as you zoom in rather than all at once, because every pin in the country drawn on one screen would hide the roads underneath. Ride areas appear first, since they answer the wider question of where to go, and trail pins appear after them once you are close enough to choose one trail.

The exact zooms are fixed, so you can tell whether a pin is waiting on the zoom or on the layer switch.

The longest trails surface about a zoom earlier than the rest, so a trail that fills a whole day is on the map while you are still choosing a region.

Long single track shows its mileage on the pin, so you can tell an afternoon from a full day before you tap anything. A pin carries that number only when it is a single-track pin whose longest unbroken run of single track is 15 miles or more. The number is that run rather than the trail's total mileage, and it is printed in miles, so you are reading how far you can ride without leaving single track. Between 10 and 15 miles the pin carries a distinguishing mark rather than a number, and pins of the other vehicle classes never carry a number at all.

What you see zoomed out:

• Ride-area pins draw on the map.
• Trail pins are not on the map yet.
• Community routes and base map roads still draw.

Zoom in past zoom 10 and the trail pins draw, because they were waiting on the zoom rather than missing from the map. No pin has been removed.

There is a second reason a pin can be absent at any zoom, which is that pins landing on top of each other are thinned out until each one has room. Ride areas keep their place over trails, and the longest trails keep theirs over the rest, so crowded pins separate and reappear as you zoom further in. Nothing is taken out of the catalogue, which holds its 190 ride areas and 588 trail pins whatever the map is drawing.

Tapping a trail pin#

1. Tap a trail pin.
2. The trail's line draws on the map.
3. A card opens with the trail's details.

On a Free account a trail pin in a locked road class still opens its card, so you can read the trail's details and decide about Pro from what it says. The line itself is not drawn, because drawing a locked class is what Pro unlocks. The pin, the other pins and the community routes stay on the map, so nothing else about Explore changes.

Tap to identify and pins.

Tap a road#

Tap any line of the INVIA Base Map and the whole road highlights with a card, so you read the rules for the whole road rather than for the point you touched.

The card carries these fields, where they apply:

• Number
• Class
• Surface
• Designation
• Season
• Managing agency
• Difficulty
• One-way direction

A field that does not apply to that road is left off the card, rather than shown blank, so the card stays short and everything on it applies to the road you tapped. The rest of the card still shows.

Where a line stops#

Wilderness and military boundaries open a card too, which is how the map tells you why a line stops instead of leaving you to wonder whether the road is missing from the data.

1. Find the point where the road line stops.
2. Tap the boundary for its card.
3. Read the boundary name on the card.

The road either side of the boundary is still on the map and still opens its own card, because the boundary marks where riding stops, not where the data stops.

Layers#

Press Layers to open the basemap picker and the layer control, which together decide the imagery you look at and which of INVIA's own layers draw on top of it.

The basemap picker#

• Hybrid
• Streets
• Satellite
• Outdoors
• Dark
• Nav Night
• USGS Topo

The picker changes what sits underneath and nothing above it. Choosing a basemap reloads the imagery and puts INVIA's own layers back on top, which means the road classes, both pin layers, boundaries and road labels all draw again as you had them. Every switch below the picker keeps the setting you gave it, so you can swap from Satellite to USGS Topo to read the terrain and come back to the same map you left.

The basemap itself is not remembered that way. Leave Explore for another part of INVIA and come back and the map opens on Hybrid again, while every switch below the picker is exactly as you left it.

The layer control#

Turn a switch off and that layer leaves the map. Nothing is deleted. Turn the switch back on and the layer draws again, because a switch decides what is drawn rather than what INVIA holds.

What you see with Trail pins off:

• No trail pins on the map.
• Ride-area pins, community routes and base map roads still draw.
• Tapping a road still opens its card.

To bring them back, press Layers and turn Trail pins on.

Your choices carry over to the route builder, so the map you set up for reading a region is the map you then build the route on. They also outlast the session, which means the map you left set up today opens the same way tomorrow.

Free and Pro#

Explore is free on every account, so the community routes, both pin layers and the road card are there whatever you pay. The Pro road classes stay locked as they are everywhere else.

What you see on a Free account:

• A locked road class is still listed in the layer control.
• The unlocked road classes still draw.
• Both pin layers still draw.
• Tapping a road still opens its card.

Pro unlocks the locked road classes, so their lines draw and a trail pin in one of them draws its line when you tap it.