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
    65·
    9 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!

    • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      9 months ago

      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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

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

        • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

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

    • dmtalon@infosec.pubEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • Swarfega@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

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

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
        21·
        9 months ago

        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.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      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”.

  • sherlockholmez@lemmy.mlEnglish
    52·
    9 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
    33·
    9 months ago

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

  • moritz@l.deltaa.xyzEnglish
    31·
    9 months ago

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

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    30·
    9 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
      18·
      9 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.

  • narrowide96lochkreis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    9 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
      12·
      9 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.

        • get_flomped@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          6·
          9 months ago

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

          • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
            41·
            9 months ago

            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@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        9 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.

    • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

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

  • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
    152·
    9 months 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·
      9 months 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

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
        61·
        9 months 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·
          9 months 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.

      • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

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

    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      9 months 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.

  • dotdotslash@feddit.deEnglish
    9·
    9 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

      • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        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.