Today I’m using Alltrails and also Trailforks to find hiking and mtb trails. However, I’m also trying to replace as many proprietary apps and services with open source alternatives. So, what is the best open source alternatives to Alltrails and Trailforks?
I have seen Wanderer which looks like what I’m looking for, but perhaps there are other alternatives with more users/trails or something else that makes it better?
Endurain is, as I understand it, for self-hosting which is nice but I also want to see trails that other people have uploaded in order to be inspired and find good trails when I visit a new place.
Are there any other sites I should consider?
I’ve been impressed with OSM’s https://opentrailmap.us/
but it doesn’t have the ratings/uploads/discussion that something like alltrails has. might be cool to have a fediverse/activitypub application using OSMtrails data.
Is it focused on US? If so, I will not be able to use it much since I live in Europe.
I’ve enjoyed Hiking Project, but my needs are pretty simple and don’t know if it has the features you are looking for
I will look into this and see what I think about it.
Wanderer is pretty fun, more user curated things, some are shitty some are high quality, depends, plus you can just contrubute your route too! And the fact that it’s activity pub powered is a nice bonus
How does the activity pub part works? How do I find and federate with other servers? @illusionist@lemmy.zip
It is enabled by default, you just need other server to be able to contact your server by https. Then you’ll see other servers content on your timeline, of course as always with activity pub, you might need to kickstart it by following a few people first.
You can also follow people from a wanderer instance on mstdon then you’ll get posts with links to the trails :)
Thanks, I’ll install it.
I can’t help on the open source side but I find Komoot to be more user friendly and open. For example you can download GPX files without a subscription to then make trail bookmarks in open source apps like CoMaps.
Osmand has official hiking and biking routes but not like what you or I want. Wanderer is the immich of routes.
