Wikiloc is a website, launched in 2006,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) containing GPS trails and waypoints that members have uploaded. 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.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) There are mobile apps for AndroidWikiloc outdoor navigation GPS (Android Apps on Google Play)Wikiloc for Android (Wikiloc) and iPhone.Wikiloc Free (App Store on iTunes)Wikiloc for iPhone (Wikiloc) The product has more than 11M members, is offered in many languagesThree Winners Named in National Geographic’s Geotourism Challenge 2009 (Adventure Travel Trade Association, September 16, 2009) 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.Find trails by activity or country (Wikiloc) 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 directly to a Garmin or mobile device (but GPX downloads are free). It also prohibits bulk downloads or re-hosting of the data.
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.Entrevista a Jordi L. Ramot creador de Wikiloc.com (alzado.org, 20 February 2008 -in Spanish-)
Awards Wikiloc has won the following prizes: Winner of the Changemakers / National Geographic 2009 Geotourism ChallengeGeotourism 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-) Winner of the Google Maps mashup contest in 2006Google Maps mashup contest in Spain wraps up (Google Maps Mania, October 02, 2006) Winner of the Initiative/Company award of the Spanish Geographic Society in 2013Premio 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)
See also AllTrails Google Fit Apple Health MSN Health & Fitness Runkeeper Strava
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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-)