Over the last two months, I developed wanderer. It is a self-hosted alternative to sites like alltrails.com or in other words a self-hosted trail database. It started out more as a small hobby project to teach myself some new technologies but in the end, I decided to develop it into a fully-fledged application.
Core Features:
- Manage your trails
- Extensive map integration and visualization
- Share trails with other people and explore theirs
- Advanced filter and search functionality
- Create custom lists to organize your trails further
- Chique design with a dark and light theme
- Fully mobile compatible
wanderer is completely open-source. You can find the GitHub repo here: https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer
wanderer is still under active development so if you encounter any bugs/errors or have suggestions please let me know here or open an issue on GitHub.
Strava has continued to enshittify the app to the point that I’m getting ads after every activity. Anyway, I decided to delete it after yesterday’s run and will keep an eye on this project. Thanks!
You mean after the price hike they also hiked the number of ads? I canceled when they hiked the price and managed to get it down to the old price a few months later, so I renewed for the personal heatmap. Looks like I’m definitely canceling again. I doubt they’ll give me the price break twice anyway.
Baking ads into a timeline like Strava and some other apps do has to be the worst app trend ever.
If you just like the personal heat map then checkout grrrmin_heatmap. It’s a pretty flexible python script for generating them.
This appears to be what I’ve been looking for. I can’t wait to try it. Thanks for sharing.
I removed my account a few years ago when they moved a bunch of features behind their paywall. I’m perfectly fine just using Garmin’s built in ‘news feed’ and tracking without giving my data to another company.
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Strava has ads now? I use NextDNS on my devices so assuming this is filtering out their ads.
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I LOVE THIS.
Self hosted, GOOD LOOKING (rarity in FOSS), nice to use and privacy-aiding.
Thank you so much!
This is an excellent use case for a self hosted service, since location data is frequently used for nefarious purposes.
Would be nice with activity pub support for sharing planned and recorded trails. Cone to think of it. Does it make that distinction? Planned vs recorded? How about a planning, route finding mode?
Kudos to your project so far!
I’m not sure if I understand your question correctly. Do you mean creating a trail from scratch on the map without recording it before? That is indeed on my roadmap.
Wanted to ask this. Is it difficult to implement activity pub? That would be awesome. It looks beautiful
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I think you might misunderstand what wanderer does. It is not a maps service like Open Street Maps. It’s simply a database in which you can store your GPS tracks. So the workflow would look like this: you are in the woods and record your track (e.g. with osmand) -> you store your track in GPX format -> you upload your track (and any additional info like a description or photos) to wanderer -> before your next adventure you check wanderer to decide what you want to do
An after action report, basically?
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Logging trips offline requires background location services. This does not work for a simple website. You would need to program an app for that. While this is a plan somewhere down the line, it’s still far away. So currently I would recommend relying on an external app to log your trip and import afterwards.
I have some tracks from dirt biking that I sometimes port into Google earth. Might have to give this thing a whirl.
To plan, organize or review routes.
This seems more like Garmin Basecamp, it’s not supposed to be used on the routes themselves I’m guessing.
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Offering print support for trails is high on the priority list.
Looks cool, just starred
Very interesting, I like the screenshots! Will definitely check this out.
Wow. I aspire to be as knowledgeable as you one day. This motivated me.
How do I change port to something else? 3000 is already used by Gitea :)
With docker you can simply change the port mapping in the compose file
I’ve done that, all containers report healthy, but still can’t connect. I’ve tried changing ORIGIN to ip;port, domain: port, still nothing. Really weird.
No that port is used by Homepage. B)
Come on man.
This looks awesome, thanks for posting!
Just cross-posted this to OpenSource. Thank you so Mich. This is great.
This looks amazing! Going to play with it tonight. Thanks!!
Love it.
I’ve been willing to learn more about programming with location/map data so definitely checking this out.
Are you looking for contributions or help on anything? I think I might at least look at providing a Dutch translation for the front-end if you’re accepting PRs.
Absolutely all help is welcome. Please check out the roadmap for my current plans. I’d be delighted if you could add your Dutch translation here: https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/wanderer/wanderer/nl/
Dank je wel!
Nice ! You made me think of spinning up a little server. It’s been a while since I’ve dabbled in managing a server and not aure I have the time for that. But you made the chances if me going for it much higher.
Would a raspberry pi 4 be enough for running it ?
Absolutely. I have it running on a Pi 5 and that’s more than enough. You only need 1GB of RAM when first starting wanderer. After that it sits at around 100Mb.
Amazing!
