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.
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Type of site | Crowd-gathered information |
|---|---|
| Available in | Galician, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish and Turkish |
| Created by | Jordi L. Ramot & voluntary collaborators |
| URL | www.wikiloc.com |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional (required to download files) |
| Launched | 2006 |
Content license | Proprietary |
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
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 Archived 2014-08-12 at the Wayback Machine (Aire Libre y Tecnología, 20 July 2008 -in Spanish-)
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