Over the last two months, I developed wanderer. It is a self-hosted alternative to sites like alltrails.com or in other words a self-hosted trail database. It started out more as a small hobby project to teach myself some new technologies but in the end, I decided to develop it into a fully-fledged application.

Core Features:

  • Manage your trails
  • Extensive map integration and visualization
  • Share trails with other people and explore theirs
  • Advanced filter and search functionality
  • Create custom lists to organize your trails further
  • Chique design with a dark and light theme
  • Fully mobile compatible

wanderer is completely open-source. You can find the GitHub repo here: https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer

wanderer is still under active development so if you encounter any bugs/errors or have suggestions please let me know here or open an issue on GitHub.

  • Hominine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Strava has continued to enshittify the app to the point that I’m getting ads after every activity. Anyway, I decided to delete it after yesterday’s run and will keep an eye on this project. Thanks!

  • sherlockholmez@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I LOVE THIS.

    Self hosted, GOOD LOOKING (rarity in FOSS), nice to use and privacy-aiding.

    Thank you so much!

  • Dandroid@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 months ago

    This is an excellent use case for a self hosted service, since location data is frequently used for nefarious purposes.

  • narrowide96lochkreis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Would be nice with activity pub support for sharing planned and recorded trails. Cone to think of it. Does it make that distinction? Planned vs recorded? How about a planning, route finding mode?

    Kudos to your project so far!

    • get_flomped@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I’m not sure if I understand your question correctly. Do you mean creating a trail from scratch on the map without recording it before? That is indeed on my roadmap.

      • B0rax@feddit.deEnglish
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        8 months ago

        There are hiking trails (which are marked with signs) where you can find the gps tracks online.

        At least that is the case in Germany.

  • stephaaaaan@feddit.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    This is very nice :) I was working on a proof of concept similar to this to have a quick search functionality for FrankenJura (german hiking database) but it was lost in a drawer due to lack of time 😁 Great work and thanks for sharing it :)

    • get_flomped@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Happy to help. If you can get a dump of the database it should be quite easy to import it into wanderer via the API 👍

      • stephaaaaan@feddit.deEnglish
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        8 months ago

        If I recall correctly, I couldn‘t find API endpoints back then and had to browse/prse the pges based on the regions and the links on the landing pages 😅

  • dotdotslash@feddit.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Soooo cool! If it could get from gpx the dates when activities where made, autoimport multiple gpx files, bug fixing, tableview (small overview from all activities) it will be my Strava killer…

    Great work! Thx

  • B0rax@feddit.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Any chance to pack it into a single container instead of three? Would make it easier to work with unraid.

    • filcuk@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Database is rarely, if ever bundled into the app container, unless it’s SQLite.

      • B0rax@feddit.deEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Yes, unraid community apps are a bit unconventional in this regard, everything needed should be in one container here.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Welcome to Lemmy! I recently posted about Wanderer also in another self-hosting community: https://slrpnk.net/post/7887187

    As someone interested in self-hosting this, I have two questions:

    How far is it suitable for say a local hiking association or a small municipal government to use this as a public trail database to promote regional eco-tourism efforts? Where I live the local government has something like that, but it is badly maintained. For that to work it would need to have the ability to easily find trails on an overview map and to allow posting notices about trail closures etc. (ideally even crowd sourced?) Maybe also some way to mark trails as official, if they are designated and sign-posted.

    Unrelated: have you thought about allowing the live-tracking via apps like Phonetrack or OSMand? I think that would make it both more convenient for uploading tracks (at least where there is sufficient cell-coverage) and might add an interesting social aspect to it if you can share your live-location with other users.

    P.S.: Would be great if you could add it to https://translate.codeberg.org/ for adding additional languages easily.

    • get_flomped@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Thanks for promoting wanderer! Finding trails on the map should be no problem, you can currently mark trails as public so that not logged-in users can see the trail. I have thought of steering wanderer towards a more socially interactive platform. I think a good first step would be to allow comments and implement a rating system.

      Thanks for the crowdsourced translation website. I was looking for something like this. I will set it up and add it to the contributing section of the documentation.