Wikiloc

Wikiloc is a website, launched in 2006, containing GPS trails and waypoints that members have uploaded. 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 11M members, is offered in many languages and has more than 37.9M[clarification needed] tracks of dozens of activities (hiking, cycling, sailing, horseback riding, driving, paragliding, and so on) in many countries and territories. Wikiloc began as a worldwide online reference for hiking. Additionally, photographs on Wikiloc enabled automated content analysis to characterize the landscape in the Ebro Delta Natural Park, Spain.

Wikiloc does not pay its contributors. It charges users to download trails and waypoints from the website. It also prohibits bulk downloads or re-hosting of the data.

Technology

Wikiloc runs on Linux, with a PostgreSQL database manager with PostGIS for geography support, Apache software, Hibernate, GEOS, GDAL, PROJ.4, and with some Python for preprocess and maintenance.

Awards

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

See also

References

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