What is One Who Walks?
One Who Walks turns a walk, hike or run into a poster. You choose the route, either GPX files or activities from your Strava account, add up to six photos from along the way, and the tool lays them out around the route line. Then you decide how to keep it: a €12 high-res file, a printed poster or a framed one. The site's own pitch is "Proof that you kept going."
It was built by Stian, who lives in Ålesund, Norway. On the About page he says he made it because he wanted a better record of his walks than a screenshot of a Strava map, and that he uses it for his own routes. The example poster on the homepage is a Tafjord mountains route from 11 to 18 July 2025, with the dates, 87.9 km and 5,592 m of elevation printed under the title. Around the poster tool the site is mostly a trail journal about long walks in Norway, plus a small shop with a One Who Walks beanie and T-shirt.
Key Features
Strava activities or GPX files
Connect Strava and a picker lists your activities, with a search box and an activity type filter. Select one or several. Several activities, or several uploaded GPX files, are combined into a single poster, so a multi-day trip recorded one day at a time ends up on one map.
Photos pinned to the route
Up to six photos go on the poster. You can upload them from your device, and when you pick Strava activities the tool also fetches any photos attached to them. A photo's GPS tag anchors it to its spot on the map, and you can click the route to set or move that spot by hand. Vertical photos can be cropped.
A few layout choices
Under "Adjust layout & details" you can name the walk, switch between metric and imperial, and set the route colour to red or black. That is the extent of the styling: there is no theme or map style picker.
Three ways to keep it
- Digital Keepsake, €12: a high-res download at 300 DPI, ready to print yourself or share
- Printed Poster: museum-grade matte paper, €39 at A4, €49 at A3, €59 at A2
- Poster + Frame: €69 at A4, €89 at A3, €109 at A2, in a white, wood, dark wood or black frame
A gift message costs €5 extra on either physical option. Shipping is worked out at checkout from your country and postal code, and the checkout takes coupon codes.
Who It's For
- Hikers back from a multi-day trip, with a week of separate activities that belong on one map
- Runners and walkers who want one route on the wall rather than a screenshot in a camera roll
- People buying a gift for someone else's big walk, with a gift message added for €5
- Anyone without Strava: the tool also takes GPX files, with photos uploaded from your device
What it doesn't do
There is no privacy policy or terms page on the site, and connecting Strava asks for access to every activity, private ones included (details in the FAQ below). It is a website only, with no phone app. Building and previewing a poster costs nothing, but every way of keeping it is paid, starting at the €12 file. Prices are in euros. Sizes stop at A2, and the styling stops at the title, the units and a red or black route line.
What does One Who Walks read from my Strava account?
The Connect Strava button sends you to Strava asking for the activity:read_all permission. Strava's developer documentation describes that as everything activity:read covers, plus privacy zone data and activities set to Only You. The tool uses it to list your activities, fetch the route of the ones you select, and fetch any photos attached to them. Since One Who Walks publishes no privacy policy, there is no statement of how long any of that is kept.
What sizes are the posters?
Three: A4 (21 × 30 cm), A3 (30 × 42 cm) and A2 (42 × 59 cm). The poster tool marks A3 as recommended.
Who prints and ships the posters?
The About page says the posters are printed through Gelato and shipped worldwide. In practice the checkout offers a list of 50 countries, and the shipping cost appears once you enter your country and postal code.
