Wikiloc

Wikiloc is a website, launched in 2006, that offers for free GPS trails and waypoints that members (free registration) can upload and share. 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 1.6 M members, is offered in many languages and has more than 3.7 M tracks of dozens of activities (hiking, cycling, sailing, horseback riding, diving, paragliding ...) in many countries and territories. Wikiloc is a worldwide online reference for hiking.

Technology

Wikiloc is completely made with free software. It uses HTML and Javascript in the web browser, while in the server is made with Linux, PostgreSQL database manager with PostGIS for geography support, Apache software, Hibernate, GEOS, GDAL and PROJ.4, with some Python for preprocess and mantienance.

Awards

Among others, 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

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 (Aire Libre y Tecnología, 20 July 2008 -in Spanish-)

• Three Winners Named in National Geographic’s Geotourism Challenge 2009 (National Geographic Society Press Room, September 9, 2009)
• About Wikiloc (Wikiloc)
• Wikiloc is online (WikiLoc's blog, June 28, 2006)
• El sitio de rutas Wikiloc entra en Google Earth (UPI.com, October 2, 2008 -in Spanish-)
• Wikiloc – GPS Tracks Site (Google Earth Blog, February 11, 2008)
• Wikiloc outdoor navigation GPS (Android Apps on Google Play)
• Wikiloc for Android (Wikiloc)
• Wikiloc Free (App Store on iTunes)
• Wikiloc for iPhone (Wikiloc)
• Home page (Wikiloc)
• Three Winners Named in National Geographic’s Geotourism Challenge 2009 (Adventure Travel Trade Association, September 16, 2009)
• Wikiloc llega a los dos millones de excursiones (EL PAÍS, 22 April 2014 -in Spanish-)
• Find trails by activity or country (Wikiloc)
• An Introduction to Wikiloc: how to find hiking trails (Saudicaves)
• Entrevista a Jordi L. Ramot creador de Wikiloc.com (alzado.org, 20 February 2008 -in Spanish-)
• Geotourism Winners Announced! (Intelligent Travel, National Geographic Society, September 9, 2009)
• Wikiloc: Blazing Trails for Geotourism (Changemakers, 02/09/10)
• National Geographic premia la comunidad de viajes catalana Wikiloc (El Periódico, 17 September 2009 -in Spanish-)
• National Geographic premia plan 'verde' (HOY Ecuador, 4 February 2010 -in Spanish-)
• Facebook turístico y aerolínea que no contamina, premios National Geographic (ABC.es, 2 February 2010 -in Spanish-)
• Google Maps mashup contest in Spain wraps up (Google Maps Mania, October 02, 2006)
• Premio Iniciativa/Empresa (Sociedad Geográfica Española -in Spanish-)
• La Sociedad Geográfica Española celebra sus premios anuales (Desnivel, 11 March 2014 -in Spanish-)
• El mundo de la exploración se pone sus mejores galas: Premios a los exploradores del año (GEO -in Spanish-)
• XVI Premios de la Sociedad Geográfica Española (Revista Oxigeno, 4 March 2014)