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title: Trips
slug: trips
summary: Create and manage trips - the trips list and its map and timeline, trip tabs, uploading GPX tracks, drawing routes, splitting and simplifying tracks, privacy, and exporting.
order: 2
updated: 2026-11-13
---

# Trips

A trip is the basic unit in Geofoobar. It holds tracks, locations, a story, media and settings. Your trips live under **My Trips** (`/edit/trips`).

## How do I create a trip?

1. Open **My Trips** and press **New trip**.
2. Fill in **Trip name** and **Date traveled** (defaults are the current date and time). You can also start the **Story**.
3. Press **Create**.

If your browser allows location access, Geofoobar sets the trip origin to the map centre and fills in the place name and a short description. You can always set the location later in the trip settings. New trips are **private** by default and inherit your default style (see [Maps](/help/maps)).

If you reached the maximum number of trips for your plan, an upgrade dialog appears.

## How do I find and sort my trips?

- **Search:** type into the **Trip name** box (case-insensitive, matches part of the name).
- **Filter by date traveled:** use the date button and choose **From** and **To**, then **Apply** (or **Clear**). It needs at least one trip with a date.
- **Sort by:** **Name**, **Modified** (default) or **Traveled**. Press the same option again to reverse the order.
- **Views:** **Map**, **List** or **Icons** (thumbnail grid).
- **Load more** fetches further trips; the counter shows how many are loaded.

## What does the trips map and timeline show?

In map view each trip is a pin at its origin. Trips without a position do not appear. You can switch **Map / Satellite** and **Flat map / Globe**, and use **Search location...** to jump somewhere.

The timeline slider has a play button. It plays through your trips by date over about 12 seconds and reveals them on the map. It needs trips with dates.

## What are the tabs of a trip?

Open a trip to see a side menu:

| Tab | Purpose |
| --- | --- |
| Trip | Preview of the trip as others see it (the "postcard") |
| Story | The story editor, see [Stories](/help/stories) |
| Media | The photo and video gallery, see [Stories](/help/stories) |
| Map | The map editor with tracks, locations and video export, see [Maps](/help/maps) |
| Settings | Title image, name, date, privacy, origin and deleting the trip |

## How do I add tracks to a trip?

Tracks are managed on the **Map** tab, under **Tracks**.

### How do I upload a GPX file?

Press **Upload GPX** and choose a `.gpx` file (from Garmin, Strava and similar). GPX is the only import format in the web editor. The maximum file size and the number of tracks per trip depend on your plan.

### How do I draw a track?

Press **Draw track**, choose how waypoints are connected - **Driving**, **Cycling**, **Walking** or **Flying** - and press **Start**. Click the map to add waypoints, then **Done**. Driving, cycling and walking follow roads and count towards your daily routing requests; Flying draws a straight (great-circle) line. Drawn tracks have no time information. This is useful for planning a trip or for a trip you did not record.

### How do I split, simplify, export or delete tracks?

- **Split track:** click near a track, confirm, and the track is replaced by two. Use it to remove part of a track or style the parts separately.
- **Simplify:** removes points closer than the **Tolerance (m)** (default 20).
- **Export GPX:** downloads the tracks as a GPX file.
- **Delete selected:** removes the selected tracks. This cannot be undone.
- **Select all**, **Zoom to all tracks** and **Apply style to selected** help you work with many tracks at once.

## How do I set the trip's name, image, privacy and origin?

Open the **Settings** tab:

- **Title image:** generated from the map when the trip is created; upload your own with **Change image**.
- **Trip name** and **Trip date**.
- **Trip privacy:** **Private** or **Public**.
- **Trip origin:** pan and zoom the small map to where the trip takes place and press **Save**. This is where the pin appears. For road trips, choose the destination or the place where most of the story happens.

## How do I make a trip public?

Set **Trip privacy** to **Public** in Settings. To appear in the public feed and be shared by link, the trip needs a position and a non-empty story. See [Feed](/help/feed).

## How do I export my trips?

On the trips list, press **Export trips** and choose **Export as PDF** or **Export as JSON**. The PDF has a title page and table of contents, and includes the trips currently shown by your filter that have a story. Exporting a single story is described in [Stories](/help/stories). Animated map videos are described in [Maps](/help/maps).

## How do I delete a trip?

Open the trip's **Settings** tab and press **Delete trip**, then confirm.

## Related pages

- [Journeys](/help/journeys)
- [Stories](/help/stories)
- [Maps](/help/maps)