How to get your GPX file

A GPX file is a recording of where you went. Nearly every sports watch and tracking app makes one while you move: a list of GPS points, in order, saved in a small standard file.

Upload one and we draw that exact track — never smoothed, never simplified. Every switchback and wrong turn you actually made is on the poster, because that is the point.

Find your app below, export the file, then upload it in the route designer.

One thing to get right: export the trip you recorded, not a route you planned. Most apps store both for the same outing, and only the recording is the path you actually travelled. When the app offers a format, choose GPX.

Phone apps and websites

Strava

  1. Open your activity in Strava.
  2. Click the ••• (more) menu.
  3. Choose Export GPX.

On the website you can skip the menu entirely — add /export_gpx to the activity’s web address. If the phone app doesn’t show the option, open strava.com in a browser instead. Free for your own activities.

Strava’s full guide ›

Garmin Connect

  1. Open the activity at connect.garmin.com.
  2. Click the gear icon at the top right.
  3. Choose Export to GPX.

Use the website — the Garmin Connect phone app can’t export GPX. The website works fine in a phone browser too.

Garmin Connect’s full guide ›

Komoot

  1. Open your completed Tour — the recorded one, not the planned one.
  2. Tap the ••• menu.
  3. Choose Export as GPX (on the website it’s Save to file).

Komoot may ask you to unlock the region or have Premium.

Komoot’s full guide ›

AllTrails

  1. Open your recording.
  2. Tap the ••• menu.
  3. Choose Download GPX (or Export route file, then GPX).

Downloading a GPX from AllTrails usually needs an AllTrails+ subscription.

AllTrails’ full guide ›

Ride with GPS

  1. Open the ride.
  2. On the website click More; in the app tap the ••• menu.
  3. Choose Export as file, then GPX Track (in the app, Export GPX).

Free accounts can export their own rides.

Ride with GPS’ full guide ›

Watches

Apple Watch and Apple Fitness

  1. Install HealthFit (a few dollars, one time) or RunGap.
  2. Let it read your workouts from Apple Health.
  3. Open the workout and export it as GPX.

Apple’s own Workout app keeps your track but won’t hand you a GPX. For next time, recording with the Strava app on your watch means you can just export from Strava above.

COROS

  1. In the COROS app open Profile, then Activities.
  2. Tap your activity, then the share icon.
  3. Choose Export, then GPX.

COROS’ full guide ›

Suunto

  1. Open your workout in the Suunto app.
  2. Tap the ••• menu.
  3. Choose GPX Workout — not GPX Route, which is navigation only.

Suunto’s full guide ›

Bike computers

Wahoo and Hammerhead units save rides in a format called FIT rather than GPX, so the simplest path is the app they already sync to.

Wahoo (ELEMNT)

  1. Your rides upload to Strava automatically.
  2. Open the ride on strava.com.
  3. Choose Export GPX (see Strava above).

Komoot or Ride with GPS work the same way if you use those.

Wahoo’s full guide ›

Hammerhead Karoo

  1. Your Karoo rides sync to Ride with GPS automatically.
  2. Open the ride there.
  3. Export it as GPX (see Ride with GPS above).

A recorded ride downloads from the Karoo as a FIT file, not a GPX — hence the detour.

Hammerhead Karoo’s full guide ›

Didn’t track it?

No file needed. Type the places you passed in the route designer and we draw the route between them, live, before you buy. Making a city map rather than a route? No file needed at all — frame it in the City Map Designer.

What we do with your file

We use it to draw your poster and nothing else — never sold, never shared with anyone, never used to train anything. Our printer only ever receives the finished image, not your GPS trace. Your file is stored with your order and deleted 90 days after it’s complete.

Stuck, or the file won’t upload?

Email it to us and we’ll sort it out. Send your .gpx file (it should hold a single trip) to hello@youwentthere.com as an attachment and we’ll take a look. For anything else, use the contact form.