Turn a GPX file into a video

What we read from the file

• The track

  The track’s points, or a route’s points when the file has no track. Several tracks or segments in one file run on as one line, in the file’s order.

• Height and time

  Each point’s height and time, when the file has them. The times give the speed, and the vehicle is chosen from it: a walker, a bike, a car, a train or a plane.

• Waypoints

  Not read: a waypoint is a place, not part of the line. Type the places you want named as stops of their own.

• Other files

  TCX, KML, KMZ and GeoJSON are read the same way. A FIT file is not, so export a GPX instead.

One file or several

One file plays as one leg. We do not cut a long file into days, so a trip recorded as one activity plays as one leg. A trip recorded one file a day goes into Merge GPX files in the order you travelled, and each file becomes a leg of its own in one film. Between two tracks you can type a leg, a ferry or a train, routed like any typed leg.

Tools for the file first

Our track tools read the file in your browser and upload nothing. The GPX viewer checks a track’s distance and climbing; KML to GPX, TCX to GPX and GeoJSON to GPX convert; Reverse a GPX turns a track round and Simplify a GPX thins it.

Get the file out of your app

Each app keeps its export in its own menu, and each has a guide with the menu to open and the file it gives: Strava, Garmin Connect, Komoot, Ride with GPS and AllTrails.

See one