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I made wanderer - a self-hosted trail and GPS track database

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.

VieuxQueb ,
@VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca avatar

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 OP ,

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.

Skuldug ,

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!

sherlockholmez ,

I LOVE THIS.

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

Thank you so much!

warm ,

What's the scope of this, just a route catalogue or will it sort of become a hiking tracker as well?

get_flomped OP ,

wanderer currently parses distance, elevation gain, duration and speed. Parsing heart rate would be an easy addition, though.

warm ,

That would be a great addition, I could use it as a history of my hikes then!

repungnant_canary ,

But why the Docker :(((

get_flomped OP ,

You can also install it directly on your machine: https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer/wiki/Installation#from-source

It's just much more tedious imo.

Treachery4524 ,

Read just a bit further and they explain how to install from source, although I don't see why you would go through the hassle

7Sea_Sailor ,
@7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Because using a containerization system to run multiple services on the same machine is vastly superior to running everything bare metal? Both from a security and a ease-of-use standpoint. Why wouldnt you use docker?

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

I actually use Nextcloud

poVoq , (edited )
@poVoq@slrpnk.net avatar

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 OP ,

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.

0110010001100010 ,
@0110010001100010@lemmy.world avatar

This looks amazing! Going to play with it tonight. Thanks!!

tracyspcy ,
@tracyspcy@lemmy.ml avatar

Looks great!

JimmyBigSausage ,

Amazing!

jerrythegenius ,
@jerrythegenius@lemmy.world avatar

Looks cool, just starred

mipadaitu ,

Very interesting, I like the screenshots! Will definitely check this out.

moritz ,

The screenshot looks awesome! I'm currently on vacation and will definitely try it out.

AFLYINTOASTER ,

This looks awesome, thanks for posting!

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