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Website for sharing GPS trails and waypoints
Wikiloc
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
[1] 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 is a
website , launched in 2006,
[2]
[3]
[4] containing
GPS
trails and
waypoints that members have uploaded.
[3] 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 .
[5]
[6] There are
mobile apps for Android
[7]
[8] and iPhone.
[9]
[10] The product has more than 11M members,
[11] is offered in many languages
[12] and has more than 37.9M[
clarification needed ] tracks
[11] of dozens of activities (hiking, cycling, sailing, horseback riding, driving, paragliding, and so on) in many countries and territories.
[13] Wikiloc began as a worldwide online reference for hiking.
[14] Additionally, photographs on Wikiloc enabled automated content analysis to characterize the landscape in the Ebro Delta Natural Park, Spain.
[15]
Wikiloc does not pay its contributors.
[16] It charges users to download trails and waypoints from the website.
[17] It also prohibits bulk downloads or re-hosting of the data.
[16]
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.
[3]
[18]
Awards
Wikiloc has won the following prizes:
See also
References
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"Wikiloc Outdoor Navigation GPS" . 10 May 2023.
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Three Winners Named in National Geographic’s Geotourism Challenge 2009 (National Geographic Society Press Room, September 9, 2009)
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About Wikiloc (Wikiloc)
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Wikiloc is online (WikiLoc's blog, June 28, 2006)
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El sitio de rutas Wikiloc entra en Google Earth
Archived 2016-03-04 at the
Wayback Machine (UPI.com, October 2, 2008 -in Spanish-)
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Wikiloc – GPS Tracks Site (Google Earth Blog, February 11, 2008)
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Wikiloc outdoor navigation GPS (Android Apps on Google Play)
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Wikiloc for Android
Archived 2014-08-30 at the
Wayback Machine (Wikiloc)
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Wikiloc Free (App Store on iTunes)
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Wikiloc for iPhone
Archived 2014-08-27 at the
Wayback Machine (Wikiloc)
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"Home Page" . Wikiloc . Retrieved 10 Nov 2022 .
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Three Winners Named in National Geographic’s Geotourism Challenge 2009 (Adventure Travel Trade Association, September 16, 2009)
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Find trails by activity or country (Wikiloc)
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Wikiloc llega a los dos millones de excursiones (EL PAÍS, 22 April 2014 -in Spanish-)
^ Callau, Aitor Àvila; Albert, María Yolanda Pérez; Rota, Joan Jurado; Giné, David Serrano (2019-10-25).
"Landscape characterization using photographs from crowdsourced platforms: content analysis of social media photographs" . Open Geosciences . 11 (1): 558–571.
Bibcode :
2019OGeo...11...46C .
doi :
10.1515/geo-2019-0046 .
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"Terms of Use" .
^ Wikiloc.
"Wikiloc – Premium" . Wikiloc | Trails of the World . Retrieved 2022-02-16 .
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Entrevista a Jordi L. Ramot creador de Wikiloc.com
Archived 2018-07-10 at the
Wayback Machine (alzado.org, 20 February 2008 -in Spanish-)
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Geotourism Winners Announced! (Intelligent Travel, National Geographic Society, September 9, 2009)
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Wikiloc: Blazing Trails for Geotourism
Archived 2020-06-29 at the
Wayback Machine (Changemakers, 02/09/10)
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National Geographic premia la comunidad de viajes catalana Wikiloc (El Periódico, 17 September 2009 -in Spanish-)
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National Geographic premia plan 'verde' (HOY Ecuador, 4 February 2010 -in Spanish-)
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Facebook turístico y aerolínea que no contamina, premios National Geographic
Archived 2014-08-12 at the
Wayback Machine (ABC.es, 2 February 2010 -in Spanish-)
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Google Maps mashup contest in Spain wraps up (Google Maps Mania, October 02, 2006)
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Premio Iniciativa/Empresa (Sociedad Geográfica Española -in Spanish-)
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La Sociedad Geográfica Española celebra sus premios anuales (Desnivel, 11 March 2014 -in Spanish-)
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El mundo de la exploración se pone sus mejores galas: Premios a los exploradores del año
Archived 2014-08-12 at the
Wayback Machine (GEO -in Spanish-)
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XVI Premios de la Sociedad Geográfica Española
Archived 2014-08-12 at the
Wayback Machine (Revista Oxigeno, 4 March 2014)
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-)