diff --git a/apps/client/src/services/server.ts b/apps/client/src/services/server.ts
index e15e3ba88..8207f18ff 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/services/server.ts
+++ b/apps/client/src/services/server.ts
@@ -58,8 +58,11 @@ async function getWithSilentNotFound<T>(url: string, componentId?: string) {
     return await call<T>("GET", url, componentId, { silentNotFound: true });
 }
 
-async function get<T>(url: string, componentId?: string) {
-    return await call<T>("GET", url, componentId);
+/**
+ * @param raw if `true`, the value will be returned as a string instead of a JavaScript object if JSON, XMLDocument if XML, etc.
+ */
+async function get<T>(url: string, componentId?: string, raw?: boolean) {
+    return await call<T>("GET", url, componentId, { raw });
 }
 
 async function post<T>(url: string, data?: unknown, componentId?: string) {
@@ -102,6 +105,8 @@ let maxKnownEntityChangeId = 0;
 interface CallOptions {
     data?: unknown;
     silentNotFound?: boolean;
+    // If `true`, the value will be returned as a string instead of a JavaScript object if JSON, XMLDocument if XML, etc.
+    raw?: boolean;
 }
 
 async function call<T>(method: string, url: string, componentId?: string, options: CallOptions = {}) {
@@ -132,7 +137,7 @@ async function call<T>(method: string, url: string, componentId?: string, option
             });
         })) as any;
     } else {
-        resp = await ajax(url, method, data, headers, !!options.silentNotFound);
+        resp = await ajax(url, method, data, headers, !!options.silentNotFound, options.raw);
     }
 
     const maxEntityChangeIdStr = resp.headers["trilium-max-entity-change-id"];
@@ -144,7 +149,10 @@ async function call<T>(method: string, url: string, componentId?: string, option
     return resp.body as T;
 }
 
-function ajax(url: string, method: string, data: unknown, headers: Headers, silentNotFound: boolean): Promise<Response> {
+/**
+ * @param raw if `true`, the value will be returned as a string instead of a JavaScript object if JSON, XMLDocument if XML, etc.
+ */
+function ajax(url: string, method: string, data: unknown, headers: Headers, silentNotFound: boolean, raw?: boolean): Promise<Response> {
     return new Promise((res, rej) => {
         const options: JQueryAjaxSettings = {
             url: window.glob.baseApiUrl + url,
@@ -186,6 +194,10 @@ function ajax(url: string, method: string, data: unknown, headers: Headers, sile
             }
         };
 
+        if (raw) {
+            options.dataType = "text";
+        }
+
         if (data) {
             try {
                 options.data = JSON.stringify(data);
diff --git a/apps/client/src/widgets/type_widgets/geo_map.ts b/apps/client/src/widgets/type_widgets/geo_map.ts
index bf7433572..bd4d3af57 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/widgets/type_widgets/geo_map.ts
+++ b/apps/client/src/widgets/type_widgets/geo_map.ts
@@ -224,13 +224,12 @@ export default class GeoMapTypeWidget extends TypeWidget {
             this.gpxLoaded = true;
         }
 
-        const xmlResponse = await server.get<XMLDocument | Uint8Array>(`notes/${note.noteId}/open`);
+        const xmlResponse = await server.get<string | Uint8Array>(`notes/${note.noteId}/open`, undefined, true);
         let stringResponse: string;
         if (xmlResponse instanceof Uint8Array) {
             stringResponse = new TextDecoder().decode(xmlResponse);
         } else {
-            // TODO: This is not very efficient as it's probably a string response that is parsed and then converted back to string and parsed again.
-            stringResponse = new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(xmlResponse)
+            stringResponse = xmlResponse;
         }
 
         const track = new this.L.GPX(stringResponse, {});