Wikiloc is a website, launched in 2006, that offers for free GPS trails and waypoints that members (free registration) can upload and share. This mashup shows the routes in frames showing Google Maps (with the possibility to show the layers of World Relief Map (maps-for-free.com), OpenStreetMap, the related OpenCycleMap, USGS Imagery Topo Base Map and USGS Topo Base Map). The service is also available in Google Earth. There are mobile apps for Android and iPhone. The product has more than 2,05 M members, "Home Page". Wikiloc. Retrieved 26 July 2016. is offered in many languages and has more than 4.76 M tracks of dozens of activities (hiking, cycling, sailing, horseback riding, diving, paragliding ...) in many countries and territories. Wikiloc is a worldwide online reference for hiking.
Video Wikiloc
Technology
Wikiloc is completely made with free software. It uses HTML and Javascript in the web browser, while in the server is made with Linux, PostgreSQL database manager with PostGIS for geography support, Apache software, Hibernate, GEOS, GDAL and PROJ.4, with some Python for preprocess and mantienance.
Maps Wikiloc
Awards
Among others, Wikiloc has won the following prizes:
- Winner of the Changemakers / National Geographic 2009 Geotourism Challenge
- Winner of the Google Maps mashup contest in 2006
- Winner of the Initiative/Company award of the Spanish Geographic Society in 2013
References
External links
- Official website
- Wikiloc, how a hobby grows into a Google darling (The Next Web, 1 September 2008)
- How to create your routes Wikiloc (Camera Battery Blog, via Internet Archive)
- GPS community sites: Wikiloc, EveryTrail (Ogle Earth, November 30, 2006)
- Wikiloc - free web site to discover, post and share GPS data (GPS Information.net Forum, November 9, 2006)
- Jordi Ramot, fundador de Wikiloc: "Las comunidades de viajeros serán cada vez más influyentes en cómo viajamos" (Ideal, 14 February 2010 -in Spanish-)
- Entrevista a Jordi L. Ramot, creador de Wikiloc (Aire Libre y Tecnología, 20 July 2008 -in Spanish-)
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