Sharing a GPX track with your riding or hiking companions

Why a GPX file on its own isn't always enough

Sending a GPX file by email or messaging works, provided the recipient knows which app to open it in. For an occasional riding companion, that's not always a given — plenty of people will open the attachment on their phone with no idea what to do with it, or need to install an app first just to look at the track. A share link sidesteps this: it opens in any browser, with nothing to install.

Generating a link and its QR code

Once the track is ready, a unique link generates in one click, along with a QR code. The link pastes directly into a group chat; the QR code earns its keep elsewhere — displayed on a screen during a pre-departure briefing, or printed straight onto a paper road book for quick access from the phone of a companion who doesn't have the link handy.

What the recipient sees

The link opens a dedicated page: the outing's name, distance, ascent, and a button to open the track directly in the editor if they want to go further — check the full profile, export to their own device, or check the surface. No sign-up is required to view the page.

The one feature that leaves local processing

Everything else in the tool runs in the browser, with no file transmitted. Sharing is the exception: the shared track is stored in a hosted file, since otherwise the recipient couldn't open the link. This is the technical trade-off needed for a link that has to stay valid even once whoever created it is no longer online — a riding companion needs to be able to open it the night before departure, long after the link was generated.