Hide Your Address in a GPX File
A recorded ride or run almost always begins and ends at your front door, so handing that file to someone hands over your address as well. This tool removes every point within a radius you choose of the start and the finish, leaving a track that still shows the interesting part of the route without saying where you live. Nothing is uploaded, which for a privacy tool is rather the point.
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How it works
Drop in your GPX file
The file is read in your browser. It is never sent anywhere.
Choose a radius
Pick how much to hide around the start and finish. 500 metres is enough to cover a street; use more in a small village where a single road would still give you away.
Strip extras if you want
Optionally remove waypoints (which often carry names like "Home") and timestamps (which reveal your daily routine).
Download
Check the trimmed route on the map and download the safe version to share.
Frequently asked questions
Because the first and last coordinates of a recorded track are wherever you pressed start and stop, which for most people is home. Anyone who opens the file can read those coordinates directly and put them into a map.
In a city, 300 to 500 metres usually covers enough surrounding streets that no single house stands out. In a village or rural area go larger, because a track that starts 500 metres along the only road out of town still points straight at you.
The idea is the same, but this works on the file itself. A Strava privacy zone only hides the map on Strava; the underlying GPX you export or share can still contain the full track. Trimming the file means the coordinates are genuinely gone.
Consider it if you are posting publicly. Timestamps show what time you leave and how long you are out, which over several files sketches a fairly reliable picture of your weekly routine.
No, and it would rather defeat the purpose. Everything happens in your browser using its built-in XML parser. No server ever sees the file.