QGIS: Exporting point data to GPX

  • QGIS: 3.20
  • OS: All
  • Updated August 2021

I have some point data I want to export to GPX and add to a Garmin GPS unit.

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To make life a little bit easier for my client I’m going to add a unique identifier to the data. Open Processing Tools and search for “Add Incremental Field” .

I’m going to add a new field called “name”

Once I run this tool I have a new layer called Incremented. I’m going to right click that layer and select Export -> Save features As.

I have a lot of fields I can put in the GPX file but the only one that is isn’t going to cause QGIS to complain is “name”. That field allows me to have a connection back to the original data AND gives a unique value for the person in the field.

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