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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.

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

Bahnd ,

These may be answered elsewhere, but like some other interested people in this post, I fully intend on trying to load a copy of this when I get home from vacation.

What methods/devices do you use to upload/sync the data? Other than a regular smart phone, were you able to use other GPS enabled devices like garmin or apple smart watches?

And system requirements?

get_flomped OP ,

You can use whatever device you prefer. In the end, you simply need a GPX file that you upload through the web UI or the API. I am planning to support other formats like KML soon, though.

System requirements should be quite low. On the first startup you will need ~1GB of RAM. After that, the whole stack sits at around 100MB on my machine.

zingo , (edited )

Oh KML support!

Looking forward to that!.

;)

I'll use it for running though.
Hmm. I'm using KML on my running sections. Is it possible to get some stats and graph for pinpointing and an average?

get_flomped OP ,

Currently wanderer supports visualising duration, distance, elevation gain and speed. Support for heart rate is planned. It can display a graph (the one you see in the screenshot) and also calculates an average.

zingo ,

That's great. Thank you very much for your work.

Bahnd ,

This was very helpful, you are an amazing human.

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

I use a banglejs 2 as a smart phone is way to bulky to carry while running. The bangle 2 is a JavaScript based watch with a GPS receiver.

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.

0110010001100010 ,
@0110010001100010@lemmy.world avatar

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

tracyspcy ,
@tracyspcy@lemmy.ml avatar

Looks great!

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.

JimmyBigSausage ,

Amazing!

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.

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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