Komoot x Content Creation
How to create Tours & Collections
Set up your profile
Add your logo, bio and website to your profile
Set up your profile
From here...
...to here.
What’s inside a completed profile?
Logo (Jpeg, square image works best)
Profile name
Bio (key info about your brand/event)
Link to your website
Your Collections
Recent activity
How do I make changes to my profile?
Click the three dots�(to the right of your profile name)
Click settings
Profile Settings
Logo: Upload New Photo
Website: add full web address
Add bio (info about your brand/event)
Username�Tip: Keep it short, it may otherwise get truncated
Click Save
2. How to create Tours
How do I create Tours* on komoot?
Three different options
Goal: Add your routes to your profile
* we refer to a Tour as the finished komoot product -> your route displayed in komoot complete with Highlights and a description
Basic knowledge: Highlights
Examples:
Please note: Highlights should be relevant for outdoor activity and the whole community (e.g inner city shops, gastronomy, tourist sites etc. are not suitable as komoot Highlights and neither are temporary occurrences (‘Squirrel on tree’, ‘Floods’) or personal highlights (‘My parents’ place’).
If the Collection needs ‘special’ Highlights like a checkpoint please speak to your komoot contact first.
Komoot Highlights are recommendations of certain spots or section by our users. These can be created as part of having completed a Tour. They then occur as red dots with a white, corresponding sport type icon on the komoot map. When creating a new route using the route planner, these can be added to your Tour.
Basic knowledge: Planned & completed Tours
Completed Tour:
= when using the komoot App (this includes any device integration) to track an activity (your hike/ride/run). Once your Tour is saved or uploaded, you can add photos, comments, recommend any existing Highlights you may have passed (or create new ones). The actual time in motion will be shown. Note: These Tours can’t directly be used for navigation.
Planned Tour
= when using the komoot Route planner in the App or on the website to plan or display a future Tour. Planned Tours can be used in the komoot App (or using a compatible GPS device) to navigate on your hike/ride/run. For planned Tours there will be an estimate for the Tour difficulty/time in motion.
We strongly recommend using planned Tours for where navigation is key (e.g. official event route). Completed Tours, on the other hand, can be great for social interactions/showing the flair/success of a past event.
komoot-Tours are either „completed” (recorded Tour) or „planned” (navigable Tour)
1. Recreate the Tour in the Route planner
You route is only available as a print map or a tour description.
Steps
1. Recreate the Tour in the Route planner
„Route planner”
Go to start point (i.e. by searching for the address or clicking on the map) & click „Start Here”
1. Recreate the Tour in the Route planner
Select: Sport Type & One Way or Round Trip (out and back)
Adding way points & Highlights one after another by clicking on the map & „Set as new End Point” → „Save Tour”
1. Recreate the Tour in the Route planner
Set „Visible to:” to „Anyone”
Add Tour Name → „Got it!”
2. Using an existing GPX-Track
2. Uploading a GPX-Track
You’ve already got a *.GPX file of your route.
Steps:
2. Using an existing GPX-Track
„Plus symbol” →�„Import a GPS File”
„Upload File” → Select file in menu or drag file into the window
2. Using an existing GPX-Track
Import to Plan a Route → „Next”
Select Sport Type (this example: Hiking) → „Next”
2. Using an existing GPX-Track
Review Tour: Check routing & add Highlights → „Save Tour”
Stick to original route → �„review details” (this is important)
Tipp: By holding the “M” button you’ll see if the original gpx file differs from the route planned in komoot. If so, drag & drop your route back where it belongs.
2. Using an existing GPX-Track
Add title → „Save”
Set „Visible to:” to „Anyone”
2. a Uploading a KML-Track
2.a Uploading a KML-Track
You’ve got a *.KML file of your route.�Attention: the komoot Route Planner can’t directly import *.KML Files.
Steps
3. Creating a copy of an existing komoot Tour
3. Creating a copy of an existing komoot Tour
The Tour has been recorded by one of your team mates or any other komoot account.
Steps
3. Creating a copy of an existing komoot Tour
Open existing Tour (planned or completed) → Create a copy of this Tour (external Tour) or Replan This tour (own Tour): https://www.komoot.com/tour/165926214
Stick to original route →�„Review Route”
3. Creating a copy of an already existing komoot Tour
Check Routing → Add Highlights (Include on Route)�→ „Save”
3. Creating a copy of an existing komoot Tour
Add title → „Save”
Set „Visible to:” to „Anyone”
3. Adding photos
How do I add photos to my Tours?
Three different options:
When it comes to completed Tours, you can add images directly to the Tour (without the need to incorporate them into a Highlight) and these can of course also be more personal/situational to fully tell your story!
Goal: Adding photos to your Tours
Attention: You can only add photos to your Planned Tours by adding komoot Highlights in the Route planner. After adding the Highlights and saving, the photos in the Highlights will be shown on the Tour detail page. Please note, Highlights are a dynamic feature so the images shown or tips displayed at the top may change over time, as the community adds and rates (new) content..[see next slide]
Basic knowledge: Rank photos
To change the order, you must first click on the Highlight in the route planner and then on ‘More Details’ (below).
On the details page you can now click on the photos and rate them by clicking the thumbs up or down icon. The highest rated photos will be displayed on the first positions.
IMPORTANT: For popular Highlights a single vote usually isn’t enough to change the current order of the pictures.
IMPORTANT: To rate photos yourself, you must first upload at least two recorded Tours and within those, create at least one Highlight or recommend an existing one. This will unlock the voting function.
The order of the photos that are added to a Highlight is determined by the ratings of other users.
Basic knowledge: Photo Copyrights
Photos that you upload to a Highlight will be linked to your profile name & profile logo. According to the komoot terms of use this is equivalent to your copyright.
1. Adding existing Highlights with high quality photos
1. Adding Highlights that look good already
The Highlights along your route have already got nice photos and you just want to add them to your Tours.
Steps:
Important: Please check the routing in detail when using segment highlights. Make sure that there are no other Highlights or waypoints on the entire section of the segment Highlight as this may cause routing errors. Equally consider if the segments are directional (e.g. one way traffic or trail). Check this video for an example.
1. Adding existing Highlights with high quality photos
Open Planned Tour → Edit Tour
Select Highlights → Include on Tour → Save
1. Adding existing Highlights with high quality photos
Done: Now the Highlight photos are shown on the very top as a Tour preview
2. Uploading photos to existing Highlights
2. Uploading photos to existing Highlights
The Highlights along your route already exist, but the images are of low quality or you want to present your specific images.
Steps:
2. Uploading photos to existing Highlights
Select Highlight → Scroll down on the left → „More Details”
Click „Edit”
2. Uploading photos to existing Highlights
Click „Browse” or Drag & Drop photos here
Try and rate photos to change order
3. Create new Highlights
3. Create new Highlights
The desired Highlights for your Tour have not yet been created by users on komoot or you need a very specific Highlight (i.e. Check point*). They need to be created as part of a Tour.
Steps
*please speak to your komoot contact/Community Manager if you have very specific Highlight requirements. Highlights should usually work for the entire community in the selected sport and be a permanent feature. Therefore we try not to create Highlights that only to work in the context of an event..
3. Create new Highlights
„Plus” →�„Import a GPS File”
„Upload File” → Select File in menu or drag file into the window
3. Create new Highlights
Import as Activity (aka Completed Tour) → „Next”
Select Sport type & any Date → �„Import Activity”
3. Create new Highlights
Add tour title → „Save”
„Edit Tour”
3. Create new Highlights
Select location on the map → „Next”
Highlights (at the top) → �„Create New Highlight”
3. Create new Highlights
Upload photos → „Done”
Add Name & Info („tip”) → �„Create Highlight”
3. Create new Highlights
„Done”
Highlight has been created and can now be added to Planned Tours* → „Done”
TIP: If you have uploaded a Tour simply to enable Highlight creation, you can of course delete this Tour afterwards..��*It may take a few minutes for the new Highlight to show up on the map. If it doesn’t show after a while, there may be a problem with the content, please speak to your komoot contact!
4. Tour Characteristics
What are Tour Characteristics?
Komoot is a route planner first and foremost
To supply our users with reliable data for their route planning, the komoot Route planner shows the following details:
How does the route planner calculate these stats?
More info: https://www.komoot.com/tour-characteristics
5. Creating a Collection
At a glance
Key points for an amazing feed-ready Collection (before we get to the detail..)
Basic knowledge: Collections
Komoot Collections are inspirational trip guides or reports that let you bundle Tours into different topics. These Collections show in the user’s profile and can be shared via a link.
How do I create a Collection?
Goal: Create a komoot Collection to organise your Tours
Each komoot Premium user can create Personal Collections to organise or showcase different Tours.
For a komoot event Collection you need the following things:
You aren’t a Premium user yet? Talk to the komoot contact/Community Manager.
Be aware that anything over 24 Tours/Highlights will get truncated in the initial Collection page/map view on desktop but will load fully after clicking either ‘load more’ or scrolling to the bottom of the page. If you’re looking to add a large amount of Tours/Highlights please discuss the best format solution with your komoot contact.
How do I create a Collection?
What to include in the intro text
The intro text is shown at the top of your Collection and it is your chance to pitch your Collection or Event to others.
If unsure, speak to your komoot contact about what exactly to include in the intro for your specific case but the basics are as follows:
How do I create a Collection?
Create a Personal Collection:
Expert’s knowledge: Pick the best header image
The header image has an aspect ratio of 4:3 in the komoot Smartphone App and an aspect ratio of 1:3.4 in the web browser.
As you can only upload one photo for both uses, please make sure that important image content is placed in the middle of the photo. Panoramic widescreen photos (16:9) work best in most cases.
For best image quality the photo should have 3.000 to 4.000 pixels in width.
Please use a JPG file in RGB color mode.
Best Practice
Example: The Atlas Mountain Race
Thanks for sharing your amazing routes on komoot and making adventure accessible to all!