Wikiloc is a premium

website A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server. Examples of notable websites are Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Wi ...

, launched in 2006,About Wikiloc
(Wikiloc) containing

GPS The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global navigation satellite sy ...

trail A trail, also known as a path or track, is an unpaved lane or small road usually passing through a natural area. In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, a path or footpath is the preferred term for a pedestrian or hiking trail. ...

s and

waypoint A waypoint is an intermediate point or place on a route or line of travel, a stopping 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 specify one's posi ...

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 panoramic views of streets ( Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and rou ...

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

USGS The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, a ...

Imagery Topo Base Map and USGS Topo Base Map). The service is also available in Google Earth. There are

mobile app A mobile application or app is a computer program or software application designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone, tablet, or watch. Mobile applications often stand in contrast to desktop applications which are designed to run on d ...

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 ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, w ...

, with a PostgreSQL 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). Technica ...

for geography support, Apache software,

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

, PROJ.4, and with some

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for preprocess and maintenance.

Awards

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 2013XVI Premios de la Sociedad Geográfica Española
(Revista Oxigeno, 4 March 2014)

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://en.wikiloc.com/
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(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

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