If your route is already in a route planner, a watch or a walking app, you pick the GPX file at your steps and StepByStepApp turns it into steps. You see what would come out first; nothing is created until you press the button.
Under 📍 Steps, below the list: "Import a route (GPX)". You choose your file and get a preview straight away — the name of the route, its length, and which steps would come out of it.
If your file has named points (waypoints), those become your steps, with the names from your file. If it only has a recorded track, you say how many steps you want and they are spread evenly along the route by distance — not by sequence number, because a GPS standing still on a bench drops just as many points as it does over a kilometre of walking.
Every imported step gets coordinates and a radius: within that distance a visitor counts as "on the spot". Fifty metres works best in practice, since GPS outdoors is accurate to five to twenty metres. If two stops end up close together, 🗺 Check your route will warn you.
Timestamps, elevations and the creator’s name stay out of the app. We do not keep the file itself — it is read in your own browser and never reaches us as a file.
The steps are added at the bottom of your list with only a name and coordinates. You add text, photos and questions per step, exactly as you would for a step you made by hand.
The import stops at the number of steps your trial allows, with a note saying how many were left out.
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