Common questions before you create your video

No. You can open GPX Animation, Zoom-in effect, and Travel route and create previews before signing up. Free exports include a DDD Maps watermark. Paid features require Pro.

You can create a 3D flyover from a GPX route, a cinematic zoom-in from the globe to any location, or a multi-stop travel route with flights, cars, walks, and automatic ferry sections. The videos are made for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, blogs, and trip recaps.

Use GPX Animation when you already have a route file or want to use a mapped hike. Use Zoom-in effect when you want to reveal one place. Use Travel route when you want to show a full journey between several destinations.

Yes. The editor works on mobile and desktop. Desktop is usually better for GPX uploads and fine camera adjustments; mobile works well for quick previews, edits, and portrait checks.

Most outdoor apps can export GPX, including Strava, Garmin, Komoot, Wikiloc, and AllTrails. If the file contains a track, route, or waypoints, DDD Maps can usually read it.

Use Find hike. Search for a peak or trail, pick the best result, and DDD Maps can use mapped route data where it is available.

Typical Strava and Garmin exports are comfortably within the route limits. Uploads can include up to 150,000 coordinates in the GPX file, exports can use up to 75,000 route coordinates, and the export request must fit within 10 MB.

For mapped hikes, yes. Find hike uses mapped route data where available instead of inventing arbitrary paths.

Some peaks or places do not have enough mapped trail data. If no usable route exists in the map data, DDD Maps cannot safely invent one.

Yes. You can adjust the start and finish, and add waypoints when the mapped trail needs guidance.

Zoom-in effect is for location reveal videos. Search for a destination, set the start and final camera view, preview the move, and export an MP4 when the framing is right.

You can set start distance from 0 to 8, final distance from 1 to 16, final tilt from 0 to 85 degrees, rotation from -180 to 180 degrees, and choose a pin or hiker marker with 60% to 180% marker size.

Zoom-in videos can run from 4 to 30 seconds.

You can search for a destination or place the marker manually. Results depend on available map and location data, so very remote or ambiguous searches may need manual adjustment.

Travel route is for animated journey videos. Add destinations in order, choose Flight, Car, or Walk between each stop, and ferry sections are added automatically when a ground route crosses water.

Car and walk routes use available routing and map data. If a ground route crosses water, DDD Maps can split out ferry sections automatically.

Yes. Each leg can be set from 2 to 90 seconds, and the total travel export is limited to 5 to 180 seconds including transition pauses.

Travel route exports can use up to 75,000 route coordinates, and the export request must fit within 10 MB.

Yes, but very long or complex ground routes depend on available routing data and may take longer to build or export. Preview the route before downloading.

Routes are generated from available map and routing data. Ferries, borders, water crossings, islands, missing road data, and very long routes can affect the result.

Yes. Preview is a core part of the workflow. You can adjust camera angle, length, map style, weather, pins, format, marker style, and route appearance before downloading.

DDD Maps exports landscape 16:9, vertical 9:16, and portrait post 4:5 MP4 videos. Standard exports 960x540, 720x1280, or 864x1080 at 24 fps. Full HD (Pro) exports 1920x1080, 1080x1920, or 1080x1350 at 24 fps. 4K (Pro) exports 3840x2160, 2160x3840, or 2160x2700 at 24 fps.

Standard is the free everyday export setting. Full HD provides 1080-class output, while 4K provides the largest render size; both are included with Pro.

GPX and Travel exports can run from 5 to 180 seconds. Zoom-in videos can run from 4 to 30 seconds. For GPX, the 10.4-second zoom-in intro and 5.5-second final route reveal count toward the 3-minute export limit.

Preview runs in your browser. Final export is rendered on the server, then encoded into an MP4 for download.

The editor estimates a default Standard GPX export at about 22 seconds, a 10-second Standard landscape zoom export at about 17 seconds, and Standard landscape travel exports at about 6 seconds plus 1.3 seconds per video second. Longer, vertical, queued, Full HD, or 4K exports can take longer.

They are designed to match. Export uses the same route, destination, camera, line settings, map style, weather, pins, and 3D transport models selected in preview.

The app includes Satellite+, Satellite, Outdoor, and Streets map styles.

Yes. Blue sky is included in Free. Sunset, Night, and Foggy are paid weather styles and require Pro.

Yes. In both route and zoom videos you can choose whether the destination pin appears. For GPX animations, start and finish pins can also be controlled from the style settings.

Yes. You can control route line visibility, trail build, trail color, marker type, marker color, pins, video length, camera angle, map style, weather, and format.

Yes. Graph + Stats is a paid GPX overlay included with Pro. It can show an elevation graph plus selectable stats: altitude, distance, ascent, and hiking time.

Free exports include a visible DDD Maps watermark. Pro removes the DDD Maps watermark from GPX, Zoom, and Travel exports. Required map attribution remains visible.

No. Map attribution is required by the map providers and must stay visible in the final video.

Free includes GPX, Zoom, and Travel access with previews and watermarked Standard-quality MP4 exports. Pro removes the watermark and unlocks Full HD and 4K, paid weather styles, Graph + Stats, and paid features across all three tools.

Free includes GPX Animation, Zoom-in effect, Travel route, GPX upload, mapped hike search, previews, map styles, Blue sky weather, core controls, and MP4 export with the DDD Maps watermark.

Pro unlocks watermark-free exports, Full HD and 4K, paid weather styles, Graph + Stats overlays for GPX routes, and full paid access to GPX Animation, Zoom-in effect, and Travel route.

Pro is $5.99 per month or $49.99 per year. Billing starts when you subscribe. Pricing and currency are confirmed at checkout and may exclude applicable taxes.

No. Free does not require signup or payment details. You only enter payment details when starting Pro.

Yes. You can cancel through your account settings. Cancellation stops future renewals and you keep access until the end of the paid period.

Unless required by law, fees already paid for the current subscription period are non-refundable. EU/EEA consumer withdrawal rights may apply as described in the Terms.

Use the contact page and include what you were trying to do, your browser, device, and whether the problem happened in preview or export.

No. DDD Maps is a video tool, not a navigation or safety tool. Always check local conditions, official trail information, weather, avalanche risk, access rules, and your own ability before going outside.

Yes, subject to the Terms and third-party provider rules. Mapbox/OpenStreetMap attribution must stay visible, and you must have rights to anything else you combine with the output.

GPX files are primarily processed in your browser. For a server-rendered export, route data, coordinates, rendering settings, temporary links, and MP4 files are processed temporarily and are normally deleted automatically within about 12 hours. DDD Maps is not permanent storage for route files or exports.

The terrain is based on map and elevation data. It is useful for visual storytelling, but it can simplify, smooth, or differ from the real world in places.