What INVIA is

INVIA is the one tool that handles a ride from end to end. Build routes on real off-road data. Edit any ride or track you own. Send them to your GPS over the cable, and pull the rides you recorded back the same way. Build custom map files and load those onto the device too. Explore what other riders have ridden, and pull any of it into your library. Then store, tag and catalogue all of it in one place, so a season of riding stays together instead of scattered across folders, apps and devices.

It is built for motorcycles. Dirt bike, dual sport, adventure, enduro and single track all get the same treatment, because the map, the routing and the device support are built around what a bike can ride.

One map, real data#

Forest Service, BLM, National Park and state data sit together on a single map, so one route can cross from one agency's land onto another's without you changing maps. Tap any road to read what the agency that manages it recorded.

A road tap shows these fields:

• Route number
• Permitted vehicles
• Difficulty
• Surface
• Season dates
• Designation
• Managing agency

Some agencies did not publish every field. Where a field was not published, that detail is not listed. The road is still drawn on the map and still tappable, so a missing field leaves you without that one detail and nothing more. Treat a missing field as unknown rather than as permission, because the agency decides what a road is open to, not INVIA.

Fire roads, two-track and single track are each drawn as what they are, in six classes running from single track up to pavement, so you know what you are riding before you leave. How the map is built.

The map covers 340,000 miles of dirt road and trail, mapped from Forest Service, BLM and state land.

Hand checking covers a smaller set than the agency data, because it is done area by area. 190 riding areas across 17 states have been gone through by hand, with 413 named single track trails so far. That work continues.

Outside those 190 areas the agency data is still drawn and still tappable, so you can plan anywhere the agencies publish. A single track trail outside the 413 may carry no name, which means you plan from the agency data rather than from a trail name.

Plan, ride, record#

Build a route in the web app, then send it to your GPS from the browser. Rides you record come back from the device into your library, so the route you planned and the ride you did sit in one place.

Riders have built more than 2,700 routes on INVIA, and more than 1,200 of those are shared to the community map, so everything you see from another rider was published on purpose.

Route building#

Auto mode selects the routing as you draw, so you always know what you are building on: a graded forest road, a technical trail, or open ground with nothing on it. The line stays where you put it, which means a route you drew by hand is the route you get.

Three readouts update as you build, so you see what a route asks of you before you ride it:

• Distance
• A ride-time estimate for your discipline
• A live elevation profile with gain, loss and maximum grade

The route builder, tool by tool.

Community heat maps#

Thousands of routes and rides uploaded by other riders are drawn on one layer, and they come from recorded rides as well as planned routes. Use the layer to see where the riding is in an area you have never ridden. Explore.

Group rides and events#

Organize a ride, send out the link, and people join for free. Dual sport events run on INVIA as well, so organizers hand out routes and run the weekend from one place. Events.

Privacy#

Your rides and routes are yours, and you share only the ones you choose, because that decision is made route by route rather than once for your whole account. An unshared route stays in your library and is not on the community map, so nobody else can open it. To give someone a route, share that one route. Sharing.

Your Garmin, from the browser#

1. Plug in the Garmin.
2. Press Send.

A Garmin connects to a computer in one of two ways, and INVIA sends over both, so those two steps are the whole procedure whichever model you own.

INVIA is the only web application outside Garmin that sends files to a Garmin over MTP, straight from a browser tab.

A Zumo XT, Tread, GPSMAP 67 or eTrex SE does not appear as a drive on your computer, because those four models connect over MTP rather than as a drive. INVIA still finds the device and still sends the route, so there is nothing to fix and no drive to look for. Connect the Garmin in INVIA and send from there.

What crosses the cable:

• Routes go out with their waypoints, colors and direction arrows.
• Recorded tracks come back.
• Custom .img maps load from the same page.

More on the Garmin connection:

• Connecting a Garmin
• Sending a route
• Supported devices and troubleshooting
• GPX files explained
• Getting recorded tracks off the device
• Custom Garmin maps (.img)

Supported models include Garmin Zumo, Tread, Montana, GPSMAP, eTrex and Oregon over the cable, which covers both of the connection types in the table above.

INVIA does not send to a non-Garmin GPS over the cable, so any other GPS that reads GPX files takes a route by export instead.

1. Export the route.
2. Copy the GPX file to the device yourself.

The Trail Tech Voyager reads the GPX from its own memory card, which is where the file goes on that model.

The name#

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