Wikiloc is a

website A website (also written as a web site) is any web page whose content is identified by a common domain name and is published on at least one web server. Websites are typically dedicated to a particular topic or purpose, such as news, educatio ...

, launched in 2006,About Wikiloc
(Wikiloc) containing GPS

trail A trail, also known as a path or track, is an unpaved lane or a small paved road (though it can also be a route along a navigable waterways) generally not intended for usage by motorized vehicles, usually passing through a natural area. Ho ...

s and

waypoint A waypoint is a point or place on a route or line of travel, a stopping point, an intermediate point, or point at which course is changed, the first use of the term tracing to 1880. In modern terms, it most often refers to coordinates which spe ...

s that members have uploaded. This mashup shows the routes in frames showing

Google Maps Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panorama, interactive panoramic views of streets (Google Street View, Street View ...

(with the possibility to show the layers of World Relief Map (maps-for-free.com),

OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap (abbreviated OSM) is a free, Open Database License, open geographic database, map database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration. Contributors collect data from surveying, surveys, trace from Ae ...

, the related OpenCycleMap,

USGS The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an government agency, agency of the United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geograp ...

Imagery Topo Base Map and USGS Topo Base Map). The service is also available in

Google Earth Google Earth is a web mapping, web and computer program created by Google that renders a 3D computer graphics, 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposition, superimposing satelli ...

. There are

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s for Android and iPhone. The product has more than 11M members, is offered in many languages and has more than 37.9M 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.Wikiloc llega a los dos millones de excursiones
(EL PAÍS, 22 April 2014 -in Spanish-) 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 Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...

, with a

PostgreSQL PostgreSQL ( ) also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source software, free and open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance. PostgreSQL features transaction processing, transactions ...

database manager with

PostGIS PostGIS ( ) is an open source software program that adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. PostGIS follows the Simple Features for SQL specification from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). PostGIS is ...

for geography support,

Apache The Apache ( ) are several Southern Athabaskan language-speaking peoples of the Southwestern United States, Southwest, the Southern Plains and Northern Mexico. They are linguistically related to the Navajo. They migrated from the Athabascan ho ...

software,

Hibernate Hibernation is a state of minimal activity and metabolic reduction entered by some animal species. Hibernation is a seasonal heterothermy characterized by low body-temperature, slow breathing and heart-rate, and low metabolic rate. It is most ...

, GEOS,

GDAL The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is a computer software library for reading and writing raster and vector geospatial data formats (e.g. shapefile), and is released under the permissive X/MIT style free software license by the ...

, PROJ.4, and with some Python for preprocess and maintenance.

Awards

Wikiloc has won the following prizes: * Winner of the Changemakers /

National Geographic ''National Geographic'' (formerly ''The National Geographic Magazine'', sometimes branded as ''Nat Geo'') is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners. The magazine was founded in 1888 as a scholarly journal, nine ...

2009 Geotourism Challenge * Winner of the Google Maps mashup contest in 2006 * Winner of the Initiative/Company award of the Spanish Geographic Society in 2013XVI Premios de la Sociedad Geográfica Española
(Revista Oxigeno, 4 March 2014)

References

External links

*
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)

(Ideal, 14 February 2010 -in Spanish-) * ttp://www.airelibreytecnologia.com/entrevista-a-jordi-l-ramot-creador-de-wikiloc/ Entrevista a Jordi L. Ramot, creador de Wikiloc{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812205355/http://www.airelibreytecnologia.com/entrevista-a-jordi-l-ramot-creador-de-wikiloc/ , date=2014-08-12 (Aire Libre y Tecnología, 20 July 2008 -in Spanish-) Android (operating system) software Collaborative mapping Crowdsourcing GIS software Global Positioning System Google Maps Satellite navigation software IOS software Mobile route-planning software Web Map Services Web mapping Wiki communities Wikis

Technology

Awards

See also

References

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