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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 |
URL | 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]
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]
Wikiloc has won the following prizes:
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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 |
URL | 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]
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]
Wikiloc has won the following prizes: