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About this tool
Trim the start and end of a GPX route so it no longer reveals your home.
The GPX Home-Zone Privacy Scrubber strips the opening and closing track points from a GPX file so a shared ride or run no longer starts and ends at your front door, and rounds the remaining latitude and longitude values to a decimal precision you choose. You paste the GPX text, say how many points to cut from each end and how many decimal places to keep (2 to 7), and it rewrites the file in place while leaving every other tag untouched. It is for cyclists, runners and hikers who want to publish a route without publishing where they live.
Open GPX Home-Zone Privacy Scrubber on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Paste your route into the GPX text box, or press the Trim first/last chip under Examples to load the sample track.
Set Start points to remove and End points to remove, then set Coordinate decimal places anywhere from 2 to 7; dropping from 6 decimals to 3 blurs each point to about 110 metres.
The Scrubbed GPX panel shows the rewritten file with a track-points-retained caption plus Start removed, End removed, Coordinate decimals and Output size (bytes) rows; press Copy, or Download to save gpx-home-zone-privacy-scrubber.txt.
Elevation, timestamps, extensions and every surrounding tag pass through byte for byte; only the trkpt elements you asked to remove disappear and only lat/lon get rounded.
Trimming hides where the route began and ended; rounding blurs the whole trace, so you can apply either or both depending on what you are protecting.
The output reports how many of the original track points survived, how many were removed from each end and the resulting file size, so you can verify before sharing.
Enough to cover the first few hundred metres of your route, which for a one-second recording usually means dozens of points, not one or two. Check the retained-points count the tool reports and open the result in a map viewer to confirm the new start is somewhere neutral, such as a junction or a park entrance.
Roughly: 5 decimal places locate a point to about 1 metre, 4 to about 11 metres, 3 to about 110 metres and 2 to about 1.1 kilometres. This tool accepts 2 to 7 decimals, so dropping from 6 to 3 turns a doorstep-precise trace into a neighbourhood-level one while keeping the route recognisable.
No — it removes the obvious clue, not every clue. A GPX can also carry waypoints, route elements, the creator device name, per-point timestamps and metadata, and a home location can still be inferred from many activities that all converge on the same block. Review those fields and consider whether repeated uploads reveal a pattern before you publish.
No. The scrub is a text transformation that runs in your browser on the GPX you paste in; the file contents are never sent to a server. Nothing is stored after you close the tab.