1. Drop in your route
Use a GPX file of your route or a run of it. Exports from Garmin Connect, Strava, Komoot, Ride with GPS and most watches and route planners all work. To carry on editing a map, drop in the map file you downloaded from here.
No GPX file handy? .
2. Make it yours
Changes show in the preview below straight away.
Colours
#FF1493#1F6FFFOptional. A small picture, such as a logo, to use instead of the dot. It's shrunk to 64 pixels and built into the map file.
Labels
Leave a label empty to show just the pin.
Map
Distances
Sets the point cards, the PDF, and the units the downloaded map and elevation profile open in. Whoever opens the map can switch between the two themselves.
Map tiles
Your key goes into the downloaded map, so its tiles count against your Thunderforest allowance. If the key stops working, the map switches to OpenTopoMap by itself.
3. Add points
Optional. Mark marshal points, aid stations, turnarounds, your HQ and anything else people need to find. On the finished map, tapping a point shows its notes and directions, and every point gets a card in the printable PDF. Points in the same spot share one pin. Cards run in route order, and the PDF follows them; the arrows on each card move one out of order if you want it that way.
No points yet.
4. Preview and download
The map and elevation HTML files are for putting on a website. To send the route to someone, by WhatsApp, text or email, use the PDF or the image: they open on any phone.
Using your files
Getting a GPX file
In Garmin Connect, open the activity or course and choose Export to GPX from its settings menu. Strava, Komoot and Ride with GPS each have a GPX export on routes and activities.WordPress and site builders
Open the downloaded file in a text editor, copy all of it, and paste it into a Custom HTML or embed block.Both on one page
Put the map and the elevation profile in separate blocks. On the same page they share one runner, so dragging along the hills moves the dot on the map.Anywhere else
Upload the file to your web host and link to it or show it in an iframe. It also opens on its own in any browser. WordPress.com only runs it on the Business plan and above.Editing later
Drop a map file you downloaded back into step 1 to carry on where you left off, with its points, labels and colours.Sending it to people
The HTML files need a web page to run in, so on a phone or in WhatsApp they open blank. Send the image instead: it shows straight in the chat, with the map, the hills and the distance. The PDF does the same on A4, for printing or email.The PDF
An A4 page with the whole route and its hills. If you've added points, it goes on to the start and finish, then a card for every point with a close-up map, notes and a QR code for directions. Print it for marshals and helpers.
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