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.

  • sherlockholmez@lemmy.mlEnglish
    51·
    9 months ago

    I LOVE THIS.

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

    Thank you so much!

  • Skuldug@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 months 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!

  • narrowide96lochkreis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    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!

    • 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

    • 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.

      • 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.

        • 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.

  • airikr@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    9 months 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·
        9 months 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.

        • get_flomped@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          That’s strange, I never had that happen. If you have the time could you please open an issue on GitHub?

  • 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
    29·
    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
      17·
      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.

  • Hominine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    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!

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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”.

  • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    9 months 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.

  • 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.

  • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    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@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      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@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        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@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          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.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      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.