Turn a GPX track into draft pace notes

Typing a whole stage from scratch takes hours. If you already have the route as a track, RecceLab can draft the notes from its shape: every corner with its direction, severity and the distance to the next one. You then check and correct the draft on the recce.

What you need

• A track of the stage as a GPX, KML, GeoJSON or CSV file with at least a few GPS points. Tracks exported from a GPS device, a sports watch or a mapping tool all work.
• Or no file at all: a recce you record in RecceLab can be used as the track.

How the draft is made

The draft engine reads the geometry of the road. It measures how sharply and how long each section turns, groups the bends into corners and gives each one a direction and a severity on the scale you chose. Straights between corners become distances, and corners that follow each other closely are linked with "into" or "and".

The engine works from the track alone. It cannot see camber, surface, crests, jumps or hazards, so those calls are added by you on the recce.

Your notation, your language

Drafts follow your settings: "Left 2" or "2 Left", and 1 as the fastest or the tightest corner. The notes are written in the language you use the app in, and RecceLab supports 16 languages.

Check it on the recce

On the second pass, RecceLab opens each note as you reach it. Keep it, change it or add what the track could not show, then save the corrected stage as a new version. Stages keep a label that shows whether they are an untouched draft or an edited one.

Next steps

Sync the finished notes with onboard footage to rehearse them (video sync), export a PDF book, or read our guide to how pace notes work.