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.

  • @airikr@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    I tried Wanderer few days ago and I did find it very nice, yet quite buggy.

    I was forced to update the page a second time before being able to do something, for an example using the menu.

    But other than that, I find Wanderer very nice! Just miss seeing mainly how fast I was travelled in km/h. The statistics and details provided in workout-tracker1 is absolutely amazing! If you add such details into your project, that would be awesome!

      • @airikr@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Very nice :) Me like! But the bug is still there when you have clicked on a trail on the home page. The page just scrolls up to the top and you have to update the page to see the trail.

  • youmaynotknowEnglish
    7•1 year ago

    Just cross-posted this to OpenSource. Thank you so Mich. This is great.

  • @helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
    13•1 year ago

    Question: why would I want to self-host this to use while I’m in the woods with no service, as opposed to an app on my device?

    • @get_flomped@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      44•1 year ago

      I think you might misunderstand what wanderer does. It is not a maps service like Open Street Maps. It’s simply a database in which you can store your GPS tracks. So the workflow would look like this: you are in the woods and record your track (e.g. with osmand) -> you store your track in GPX format -> you upload your track (and any additional info like a description or photos) to wanderer -> before your next adventure you check wanderer to decide what you want to do

      • yeehawEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        I have some tracks from dirt biking that I sometimes port into Google earth. Might have to give this thing a whirl.

      • @helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        You compared the service to AllTrails, which is a trail exploration and planning app. Like, walk down the trail and follow the map for navigation.

        Can you log your trips without an active data connection?

        • @get_flomped@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          11•1 year ago

          Logging trips offline requires background location services. This does not work for a simple website. You would need to program an app for that. While this is a plan somewhere down the line, it’s still far away. So currently I would recommend relying on an external app to log your trip and import afterwards.

    • @Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      To plan, organize or review routes.

      This seems more like Garmin Basecamp, it’s not supposed to be used on the routes themselves I’m guessing.

  • @stephaaaaan@feddit.deEnglish
    6•1 year 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
      4•1 year 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
        4•1 year 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
    9•1 year 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

  • @Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    Love it.

    I’ve been willing to learn more about programming with location/map data so definitely checking this out.

    Are you looking for contributions or help on anything? I think I might at least look at providing a Dutch translation for the front-end if you’re accepting PRs.

  • @Skuldug@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    Super cool thank you for making this! I just got a bike for the first time in over 20 years and I’m ready to explore my area. I have been trying out those other apps like all trails and trail forks, everything being so paywalled is frustrating.

    The bike I just got, it’s a beaut. A Clem Smith Jr. L from Rivendell Bike Works. I’m loving just scoping out parts and things but it’s a super great bike already.

    I look forward to trying this out and thanks again!

  • @VieuxQueb@lemmy.caEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    Nice ! You made me think of spinning up a little server. It’s been a while since I’ve dabbled in managing a server and not aure I have the time for that. But you made the chances if me going for it much higher.

    Would a raspberry pi 4 be enough for running it ?

    • @get_flomped@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      Absolutely. I have it running on a Pi 5 and that’s more than enough. You only need 1GB of RAM when first starting wanderer. After that it sits at around 100Mb.

  • DandroidEnglish
    33•1 year ago

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