onX Offroad issues: help?

[concretejungle]

Like the title says, for some reason I decided to give onX offroad a try and migrate over from Gaia. It seems like onX has more features. To be honest I've really enjoyed Gaia so I'm not sure if this was smart or not.

I'm having an issue migrating my data over from Gaia. Some of my tracks are very large since they were cross country trips, so I'm having to break down the tracks. right now I have 88 tracks. That's too much?!!

Long story short is that it's telling me I'm tapped out on my waypoints and tracks, I've reached my limit. I've purchased the Elite membership so I would think I can have unlimited waypoints and tracks? I can't find any help on the app or website to ask any questions. I can't figure out how to delete what I've imported so I can start over and try to import again in case there are duplicates?

It's also frustrating that I've spent $99 and there's no going back even if I can't get the darn app to work correctly.

Can anyone offer some assistance or point me to where some help might be found?

 

[BMThiker]

Oooof, that sucks Alex. Confirms my decision to stick with Gaia, because I have years of data saved on Gaia.

 

[concretejungle]

Oooof, that sucks Alex. Confirms my decision to stick with Gaia, because I have years of data saved on Gaia.

I'm a little shocked to be honest! Seems like in the year 2025 you could easily migrate GPS data, but that is not turning out to be the case!

First I started to export from Gaia, then when I went to import it said the max file size is 4mb. So then I had to go in and re-export GPS tracks almost one at a time to keep the file size down!! What a PITA.

This was after I uploaded all my waypoints, which it did upload pretty easy.

So I started uploaded my tracks and it said I've reached my limit!!! WTF

The other issue is that the website (using the website while trying to migrate data) is super slow. It's not my computer because I have a new silicon chip MacBook Pro, so it's the actual website. It freezes for a while when moving around the map.

All this and there's no help email or anything that I can find.

Before I call it, I'm trying to make sure it's not user error because it certainly could be.

 

[spazzyfry123]

Sorry that I don't have any direct solution, but I think the topic fits somewhat in something that I'm trying to figure out myself. Maybe your experience can shed a light?

How were you transferring what was able to get over? In my scenario, I have however many thousands of miles and waypoints and campsites and, and and... While I am not trying to transfer these over to a different platform, I am, however, trying to share these tracks and trips with a fellow Mudder. I see the ability to go into folders and share them/download individually. That's fine, but I'm looking for mass transfer of knowledge, not to incrementally provide URLs to tracks that I've deemed "public." I can even see where I can go into folders and select all - but there isn't a download/URL/whatever option to perform any meaningful action. I had even thought that since all of them are considered "public" that one could just search for my Gaia username and tada! Nope. Even with all of the social interjection brought into the Gaia platform, Google is telling me that there is no way to search by username nor do I have a shareable link to "my stuff."

Anyway - I'm a bit lost. Curious what you had done as you, too, look to be performing a mass transfer of knowledge. Did you just download each individual thing??

 

[concretejungle]

well, I did finally get this to work but I had to go through a very time consuming process of splitting up the files on the Gaia side before exporting them.

The only issue I had was with the tracks. The waypoints were not a large enough file to be an issue, but some of my tracks were larger files and that was the issue.

IIRC, the maximum file size you can import into OnX was 4mb. So I would go into the export side of Gaia, click several tracks until I hit just under 4mb. then I would export it and call it something like page 1 tracks. I did this over and over. Once I had all the tracks exported into smaller sized files, I then dragged them into onX one at a time.

This eventually allowed me to import all of my tracks into OnX.

I still say that this is absolutely stupid in the year 2025, but hey, it is what it is.

 

[spazzyfry123]

well, I did finally get this to work but I had to go through a very time consuming process of splitting up the files on the Gaia side before exporting them.

The only issue I had was with the tracks. The waypoints were not a large enough file to be an issue, but some of my tracks were larger files and that was the issue.

IIRC, the maximum file size you can import into OnX was 4mb. So I would go into the export side of Gaia, click several tracks until I hit just under 4mb. then I would export it and call it something like page 1 tracks. I did this over and over. Once I had all the tracks exported into smaller sized files, I then dragged them into onX one at a time.

This eventually allowed me to import all of my tracks into OnX.

I still say that this is absolutely stupid in the year 2025, but hey, it is what it is.

Yikes. Awfully tedious. Sounds like a similar task ahead for myself in that I need to individually share tracks. That or I need to bundle everything into a “master” folder and then share that single folder.

I’m with you. It’s 2025 guys… and it shouldn’t be this tough.

 

[concretejungle]

To be completely fair, I would have to comment that I think the file exporting process on the Gaia side is a little silly too. To best export in a way that OnX can import, you have a to create folders and save the tracks into those folders; then export out to OnX!

BUT, if OnX allowed mass import, the Gaia export side wouldn't matter since it does allow you to export everything at once.