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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.

Hominine ,
@Hominine@lemmy.world avatar

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!

njordomir ,

You mean after the price hike they also hiked the number of ads? I canceled when they hiked the price and managed to get it down to the old price a few months later, so I renewed for the personal heatmap. Looks like I'm definitely canceling again. I doubt they'll give me the price break twice anyway.

Baking ads into a timeline like Strava and some other apps do has to be the worst app trend ever.

eodur ,

If you just like the personal heat map then checkout grrrmin_heatmap. It's a pretty flexible python script for generating them.

njordomir ,

This appears to be what I've been looking for. I can't wait to try it. Thanks for sharing.

dmtalon ,

I removed my account a few years ago when they moved a bunch of features behind their paywall. I'm perfectly fine just using Garmin's built in 'news feed' and tracking without giving my data to another company.

fmstrat ,

Fittrackee has been what I use instead of Strava. Also FOSS.

Hominine ,
@Hominine@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks for the recommendation, looking into it as well.

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

Strava lost me when they jacked up prices while simultaneously not providing a dark mode and continuing to neglect their paying users' requests to acquire some semblance of control over their feed.

I'm a mountain biker and I like to see my friends' mountain bike rides. Instead my feed is jam-packed full of dog-walkers, Trainer Road and Zwift ads, and suggested/recommended "challenges" and "clubs".

I'm done. Yet another platform relegated to "post and ghost".

Swarfega ,

Strava has ads now? I use NextDNS on my devices so assuming this is filtering out their ads.

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

Much like Facebook, you can't use a DNS blocker when the ads are being served by and from the website itself. There are some scripts you can run in the desktop browser that help a little but they're usually not maintained, and Strava is constantly changing things, and they don't work on the app.

sherlockholmez ,

I LOVE THIS.

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

Thank you so much!

dandroid ,

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

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.

moritz ,

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

narrowide96lochkreis ,

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!

GravitySpoiled ,

Wanted to ask this. Is it difficult to implement activity pub? That would be awesome. It looks beautiful

get_flomped OP ,

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.

MaggiWuerze ,

That and sharing it with other users through the ActivityPub protocol (what Lemmy uses)

get_flomped OP ,

I see. I'm unfamiliar with the protocol, but sharing trails is definitely on the roadmap. So I will look into it!

poVoq ,
@poVoq@slrpnk.net avatar

Unless Pocketbase adds support for ActivityPub, you are probably better off just adding a share to Mastodon, Pixelfed etc. button in the frontend and let an external software handle this.

B0rax ,

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.

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

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?

Hawk ,

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.

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

So you plan a route and then leave the plan at home and wing it?

get_flomped OP ,

Offering print support for trails is high on the priority list.

get_flomped OP ,

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

CosmicCleric ,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

An after action report, basically?

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

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 OP ,

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.

cyberpunk007 ,

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

jerrythegenius ,
@jerrythegenius@lemmy.world avatar

Looks cool, just starred

mipadaitu ,

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

LucidBoi ,

Wow. I aspire to be as knowledgeable as you one day. This motivated me.

dotdotslash ,

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

kokesh ,
@kokesh@lemmy.world avatar

How do I change port to something else? 3000 is already used by Gitea :)

get_flomped OP ,

With docker you can simply change the port mapping in the compose file

kokesh ,
@kokesh@lemmy.world avatar

I've done that, all containers report healthy, but still can't connect. I've tried changing ORIGIN to ip;port, domain: port, still nothing. Really weird.

zingo ,

No that port is used by Homepage.
B)

Come on man.

fmstrat ,

This is ripe for multiuser and federation

AFLYINTOASTER ,

This looks awesome, thanks for posting!

jjlinux ,

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

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