Goat Maps for race organizers
Give your athletes a course file they can trust.
Most athletes follow a mountain race on their watch or bike computer, using the GPX file you publish. We help organizers get that file right.
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Athletes race the file you give them.
Course markings get pulled down, blown over and missed in the dark. When that happens, athletes look at their wrist, and they follow the line they find there even if it's from three years ago or skips last month's reroute.
A good file also tells them what's coming: how far to the next aid station, where the course turns off the main trail, and how long they have to get there. For that, the waypoints have to sit in the right places with names a watch can show.
Aid stations
Placed on the course line at the right distance, with what's there: water, food, crew access or drop bags.
Important turns
The junctions where the course leaves an obvious trail or road, marked so athletes see them coming on their watch.
Cutoff times
The time to beat at each checkpoint, written into its waypoint so athletes know it before they get there.
Distances that match
Kilometer 32 on the watch should be kilometer 32 in your race guide and at the aid station table.
Climbing
An elevation profile that matches the ground, so athletes pace the climbs they will actually run or ride.
Reroutes
Snow and bad-weather alternates as files of their own, so everyone loads the course you're using that day.
Plan the course in Goat Maps.
Draw the course on topo maps and satellite imagery, snap it to the trails, and mark every aid station and turn along the way. You'll see the distance and climb between each of them as you go.
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The course with its aid stations
Aid stations and turns as waypoints on the course, with the elevation profile underneath.
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Legs between aid stations
The course split into legs at each aid station, with the distance and climb of each.
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Exporting the GPX file
The finished course exported as a GPX file for watches and bike computers.
What we do for organizers.
A membership to plan with
We give race organizers a Goat Maps membership on us while they plan the event. That includes offline maps for scouting the course, weekly satellite imagery, and land ownership for working out whose land the course crosses.
Help with the GPX file
Our geospatial consulting covers the file itself. We check the line against trails, imagery and elevation data, place the aid stations, turns and cutoffs with you, and set up the waypoints so they come through on athletes' watches and bike computers.
A public page for your race.
We'll set up a page for your course with your race's name and branding on it. Athletes can look over the map and elevation profile, see every aid station, and download the official GPX file.
Link to it from your website and race emails. If the course changes, you update it in one place.
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A race page
Tell us about your race.
Send us a few details and we'll get back to you by email to talk through the course and what you need.
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Create a free Goat Maps account if you don't have one, so we have somewhere to put your membership.
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Tell us where and when the race is, the distances, and what you'd like help with.
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We add the membership to your account and work out the rest with you.