Bonus Tips for GPS import

Dense features in OOM

Because I overzealously mapped all of the single trees, you can see that my little green X feature overlap each other, so it's pretty hard to see/select the features.

Open Orienteering Mapper lets you make your features smaller, which greatly improves this situation.

In Open Orienteering Mapper, go to Symbols > "Scale all symbols..."

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A dialog will appear that lets you scale your symbols by a percentage (I chose 50% to make my symbols half their original size).

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Here's a before (all the X's overlapping):

before

And an after (much more reasonable separation between trees):

after

Exporting as GPX

You actually can export GPX waypoints from GPS Essentials if you would prefer to. I tried it both ways and didn't find it substantially different.

Here's how:

In your app (GPS Essentials > Waypoints), go to the Export page:

On the blue bar at the top, it says "KML":

Tap that to open a menu that lets you change your export format:

Select your preferred format and send as before.

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