A Strava map print is your recorded route drawn on top of a real map: the roads, the water, the park you cut through, and your line across it. Where the clean-line print shows the shape alone, the map version shows where the shape happened. Connect Strava or drop in the GPX, pick a map style, and it is on screen in your browser before you order.
Seven backgrounds, one route
The background is a choice, not a fixed look. Six of the seven are maps we draw ourselves from vector data, in the poster's own colours, so they print as sharp at 70×100 as at 30×40:
| Map | For | What it draws |
|---|---|---|
| Atlas | the default — "where was this?" | coast, water, parks and place names in full colour |
| Topo | hiking, mountains, the Camino | contour lines, hillshade, forest and field, the path strongest |
| Piste | skiing | runs at full weight, lifts dashed, the terrain underneath |
| Nautical | sailing, rowing, open water | sea depths in bands, coastline, depth contours |
| City | city runs, commutes | buildings as texture and the whole street grid |
| Lines | the drawn line poster | roads, water and coastline in your colours |
| Satellite | long rides, landscape | Maxar aerial imagery, with roads, water and names drawn on top |
Or no map at all, and it is the clean-line print again. Satellite route prints and mountain route prints go into the two that change the most.
The maps are drawn from Mapbox and OpenStreetMap data (satellite imagery © Maxar), and the sheet carries the attribution in small type, as the licences require. Strava's own map is not used and is not needed: your route is your recording, and it sits on any map.
What the map adds, and what it costs you
A map earns its place when the route is about the place: the marathon through a city you visited, the loop that goes around the lake, the commute that found a better way. It costs a little of the line's clarity — a route on a busy street map is a route among other lines — which is why the pale styles exist. Clean line or a map behind it goes through the decision with examples.
The zoom follows the route. A five-kilometre loop fills the sheet at street level; a 300-kilometre ride shows the region. Either way the map is fetched at print resolution for the size you order, not stretched from a screenshot.
Sizes, paper, frame
Route print: 30×40, 50×70 or 70×100 cm on Museum 250 gsm or Classic 170 gsm, both uncoated matte, from 319 kr (≈ €42). Framed: the same sheet behind acrylic glazing in a pine wood frame — white, black, wood or dark wood — ready to hang, from 799 kr. The numbers under the map come from the file: distance, time, elevation, pace, the date, and a title you write.
The route, not the address
The first and last 500 metres are clipped before anything is drawn, and on a map that matters more than on a plain sheet: a map shows exactly which door a line starts at. The trim happens in your browser and can be pushed out to two kilometres. It can also be switched off, for an activity from Strava as for a file. How the trim works.
Getting the route out of Strava
Connect the account in the editor and pick the activity, or export it yourself: on strava.com, more menu, Export GPX — free on every plan, website only (the guide, and the phone workaround). The Strava map as an image is a different thing: a picture of Strava's screen, a few hundred pixels across. This is the route itself, drawn at print size.
All the ways to print a Strava route are on Strava prints. Epic Efforts is not affiliated with Strava.