For hikers, cyclists, pilgrims & long-distance travellers
Turn your GPS files into a journey worth sharing.
Drop your Strava, Garmin, or Apple Health export and Maptivities builds one beautiful page of your whole trip — day-by-day maps, elevation, stats, weather, and a print-ready poster. It all happens in your browser. Your tracks never leave your device.
A real Maptivities poster — 34 days on the Camino del Norte, Irún to Santiago, coloured by region.
Four steps to your page
No sign-up, no setup. If you can export a file, you can make a journey.
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Export your activities
Grab your trip from Strava, Garmin, or Apple Health / Apple Watch. Maptivities shows you exactly how for each one.
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Drop the file
Drop the whole export ZIP and pick your journey, or drop one or more GPX / TCX / FIT files. Your page builds in a few seconds.
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Make it yours
Rename the journey, fix any town name with a click, trim a stray transit day, switch to miles — the page updates as you go.
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Save & share
Download a print-ready poster or a clean PDF of the whole journey — to frame, print, or pass along to whoever you shared the road with.
Built for the long way round
Everything you need to relive a multi-day journey and turn it into something you’ll actually keep.
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Maps over satellite
Your GPS tracks drawn over satellite imagery, coloured by part of the journey, with a clean poster style for offline and print.
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Knows the Camino
Walking a Camino? It recognises the route, names each stage with its traditional towns, and chapters the journey by region — Finisterre epilogue included.
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Private by design
Your files are read and rendered entirely in your browser and are never uploaded, and there are no accounts. Anonymous, aggregate visit stats (Google Analytics) help me see what’s useful — never your files or your routes.
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Every stat, every day
Distance, ascent, pace, moving time, steps, and the day’s weather — per stage and totalled for the whole journey.
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Posters & PDF
Export a print-resolution poster (satellite or line-art) or a clean PDF of the whole journey, ready to frame or send.
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Any source
Strava, Garmin, Apple Health and Apple Watch — GPX, TCX, or raw FIT files, zipped or loose. It sorts out the rest.
🔒 Your data stays yours
Maptivities is a single web page that runs on your machine. Your location history is some of the most personal data you have, so the tool is built so it never has to trust anyone with it — including us.
Your GPS tracks are never uploaded. Files are opened and processed in your browser and go nowhere else.
No account, no login. There’s nothing to sign up for. I use Google Analytics to count visits and see which features get used — anonymous, aggregate data only, never your files or GPS tracks.
Two small exceptions, only when online: map tiles are fetched from Esri, and each stage’s start/end point is sent to OpenStreetMap to look up a town name. Your track itself is never sent.
It’s just a static page. No server does anything with your data — you can save the page and use it entirely offline.
Questions
What files does it take?
A whole Strava, Garmin, or Apple Health export ZIP — it reads what’s inside and finds your journeys — or one or more GPX, TCX, or FIT files (including .gz-compressed ones). On a Mac, a re-zipped folder works fine too.
Is my data really safe?
Yes. Your GPS files are read and rendered entirely in your browser and are never uploaded. The only things that ever leave your device are anonymous map-tile requests to Esri and stage start/end coordinates sent to OpenStreetMap for town names — never your full track. There are no accounts. I do use Google Analytics to understand traffic and what people find useful, but it only ever sees anonymous visit data — never your files or your routes.
Does it cost anything?
No. Maptivities is free and there’s nothing to sign up for.
What counts as a “journey”?
Any run of days spent travelling — a thru-hike, a Camino, a cycle tour, a long-distance walk. Maptivities looks for multi-day stretches that actually move across the map (not your daily commute) and offers them up for you to pick.
Do I have to be walking a Camino?
Not at all. Camino routes get extra magic (auto-naming, region chapters), but any multi-day GPS journey — anywhere in the world, on foot or by bike — builds a full page.
Can I share what I make?
Today you can save the poster or the PDF and send those along, or print the poster to frame. Simple one-link sharing of the page itself is on the way.
How do I suggest a feature or report a bug?
I’d love to hear it. Email feedback@maptivities.com — every message reaches me directly, and what people ask for shapes what gets built next.
What’s next
Maptivities is free and actively growing. Here’s what’s on the way — and your ideas help decide what lands first.
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One-link sharing
Share a journey as a single link instead of a file. Opt-in and privacy-first — you choose what gets published, and what stays on your device.
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Photos on the route
Add your trip photos and Maptivities pins each one to the right day, and the right spot on the map, from its timestamp.
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More routes & trails
Beyond the Caminos — more long-distance trails recognised, with the same auto-naming and region chapters.
Got an idea for a feature, or found a bug? I read every message.
