Import your activities from Garmin Connect

Recording your runs, walks and rides with a Garmin watch or bike computer? Download them from Garmin Connect and import them into Urban Canvas to see right away which streets you've already completed.

This works best on a computer, since you'll need to unzip some files.

All activities at once

  1. Log in at garmin.com/account and open Data Management.
  2. Click Export Your Data, then Request Data Export.
  3. Garmin sends you an email with a download link, which can take a few days. Download the ZIP file and unzip it.
  4. Open the DI_CONNECT/DI-Connect-Uploaded-Files folder. It contains one or more ZIP files with your activities. Unzip those too.
  5. In Urban Canvas, open More → Import activities, select the .fit files and tap Upload.

Activities without GPS, like treadmill runs, are skipped with an error. They don't have any streets Urban Canvas could count.

Single activities

  1. Open the activity on connect.garmin.com.
  2. Click the gear icon in the top right, then Export to GPX.
  3. Import the file under More → Import activities.

Good to know

  • You can safely import the same files again. Activities you've already imported are skipped.
  • You need an Urban Canvas account to import activities.

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Import activities