Polaris Matrix LabsFinisher poster

Your race, on a poster

Pick your race, type your name and finish time. Course, elevation and pace are drawn for you.

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Not in the list? Tell us your race and we will try to add it, or use your own GPX.

Courses are traced from the official course maps onto OpenStreetMap. Not affiliated with any race organiser.

Your poster appears here

Pick your race above. Or drop your own GPX file here.

Your finisher poster

My route is not in the list / use my watch track adds km splits

Upload the GPX from your watch: the poster then shows your real line, and your splits per km.

  1. Strava – on a computer, not the phone app (it cannot export): open the activity → ⋯ menu → Export GPX.
  2. Garmin Connect – on the website connect.garmin.com (works in a phone browser too; the Garmin app cannot export): open the activity → gear icon ⚙ → Export to GPX.
  3. Choose the file here:

Your file stays on this device. Nothing is uploaded.

No file at hand? Try a sample run: ·

Questions

Is my race in the list?

For now the list has Nordic races (Oslo, Stockholm, Göteborg, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Reykjavík, Trondheim, Bergen, Stavanger, Tromsø, Lidingö); more are being added. If yours is missing, tell us the race – or use the GPX from your watch, which works for any route.

How accurate is the course?

Each course is traced from the organiser's official course map onto the real streets in OpenStreetMap and checked against it on an overlay (turnarounds, loops, bridges). The poster shows the official distance; the elevation profile comes from open terrain data. We are not affiliated with the race organisers.

What does one purchase cover?

One licence covers one poster design: your race, distance and year (or your own GPX track) with your name. Edit your design and download again as often as you like – colours, style, size, title, photo, a typo. A design for someone else (another runner, another race or another year) needs a new licence.

How do I get the GPX file?

Strava (on a computer): open the activity, click the ⋯ menu on the left, choose Export GPX. The phone app cannot export.
Garmin Connect (on connect.garmin.com – also works in a phone browser): open the activity, click the gear icon, choose Export to GPX. The Garmin Connect app cannot export.
Coros, Suunto, Polar: their web or phone apps can export the activity as GPX.
Apple Watch: the Health app does not export GPX; a third-party export app can.
Making it as a gift? Ask the runner to send you the file.

Is my route uploaded anywhere?

No. Your GPX file and photo are read and the poster is drawn in your browser; neither is uploaded. Your design (with the GPX and photo) is kept in this browser on this device, so it is still there when you come back from paying; Start over clears it. For your own GPX the street map is off until you switch it on; when it is on, your browser downloads map tiles for the area around the route from OpenFreeMap – like any online map, that request shows the map area, not your track.

The time is wrong

GPS time includes the minutes before the start and after the finish if the watch kept running. Type your official chip time in Finish time and it replaces the GPS time and pace.

What do I get, and how do I print it?

A ZIP with a vector PDF in every size: A4, A3, the common frame sizes 30×40, 40×50, 50×70 and 61×91 cm, and 12×18, 18×24 and 24×36 in. The PDFs stay sharp at any size and are what print shops prefer. You also get a PNG of the size you chose (300 dpi up to A3, 200 dpi for bigger sizes). Print at 100% / actual size.

Courses: traced from the organisers' official course maps onto OpenStreetMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors; the course data (races/) is available under the Open Database License. Not affiliated with any race organiser. Street map: OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles, data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Elevation: Terrain Tiles on AWS (Mapzen), from SRTM, GMTED2010, ETOPO1, EU-DEM (produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union), © Kartverket (CC BY 4.0) and other sources. Fonts: Barlow, Barlow Condensed, DM Serif Display, Cormorant Garamond (SIL Open Font License, details). Sold by Polaris Matrix Labs MA, org.nr 936 950 175, Sandefjord, Norway · [email protected] · Privacy. A faulty file? Email us and we will fix it or refund you.