An open (or federated) searchable catalog of hikes and hiking trails (alltrails alternative)?
from matcha_addict@lemy.lol to fediverse@lemmy.world on 30 May 18:40
https://lemy.lol/post/45741142

I found wanderer.to as an alternative to alltrails, but it seems not to address my main use case for alltrails: search around for potential hikes, look for reviews about them, photos, etc.

Is there anything like this? Anything close to it?

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kersploosh@sh.itjust.works on 30 May 19:17 next collapse

I have been looking for the same thing for years. I basically want the WTA Hike Finder but expanded worldwide, and with some map integration to show the routes visually instead of having to interpret the descriptions.

jlow@discuss.tchncs.de on 30 May 20:18 next collapse

For Scotland there’s

www.walkhighlands.co.uk

with gpx tracos that you can use offline with Osmand or similar.

matcha_addict@lemy.lol on 30 May 20:51 collapse

For the mid Atlantic area there’s “hiking upward”, it’s pretty awesome.

balsoft@lemmy.ml on 30 May 19:33 next collapse

Not an exact alternative (it’s missing reviews and photos are relatively rare), but I use OsmAnd for this. Most “official” trails (e.g. those maintained by the park administration, etc) are mapped on OpenStreetMap already. There’s also support for “Travel Routes” (I think they come from WikiTravel? Not sure); this covers the most popular “unofficial” routes. Once I ran out of those, I started just looking at mountains without trees but with a path to the summit marked on the map. This way, I’ve been able to find hikes for almost every weekend for three years now (definitely over 100 at this point) in a tiny country (Georgia); I’ve obviously had some misses (paths being overgrown, trails being meh, etc) but overall I’ve found it really nice.

matcha_addict@lemy.lol on 30 May 19:56 collapse

That’s actually what I use as well currently. It doesn’t replace all trails completely but it’s something

[deleted] on 30 May 20:44 next collapse

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miniwoodchuck@kbin.earth on 31 May 01:20 next collapse

Organic Maps has trails and is open but its not federated or not dedicated to trails.

Mac@mander.xyz on 31 May 01:36 collapse

Open Street Maps has a lot of trails but obviously not all the other stuff you’re looking for.

I use Osmand which uses OSM.