Engineering:Wikiloc
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Type of site | Crowd-gathered information |
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| 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 |
| Website | 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:
- Winner of the Changemakers / National Geographic 2009 Geotourism Challenge[19][20][21][22][23]
- Winner of the Google Maps mashup contest in 2006[24]
- Winner of the Initiative/Company award of the Spanish Geographic Society in 2013[25][26][27][28]
See also
- AllTrails
- Google Fit
- Apple Health
- MSN Health & Fitness
- Runkeeper
- Strava
References
- ↑ "Wikiloc Outdoor Navigation GPS". 10 May 2023. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wikiloc-outdoor-navigation-gps/id432102730.
- ↑ Three Winners Named in National Geographic’s Geotourism Challenge 2009 (National Geographic Society Press Room, September 9, 2009)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 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)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Home Page". http://www.wikiloc.com/. Retrieved 10 Nov 2022.
- ↑ Three Winners Named in National Geographic’s Geotourism Challenge 2009 (Adventure Travel Trade Association, September 16, 2009)
- ↑ Find trails by activity or country (Wikiloc)
- ↑ 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. doi:10.1515/geo-2019-0046. Bibcode: 2019OGeo...11...46C.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Terms of Use". https://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/terms_en.html.
- ↑ Wikiloc. "Wikiloc – Premium" (in en). https://www.wikiloc.com/premium.
- ↑ 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)
External links
- 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-)
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