Is there a sort of equivelant to Wikipedia for hiking trails?
This site would display the same sort of information as All Trails: descriptions, pictures, waypoints, information about trail dangers, trail maps, time to complete the trail, distance, elevation gain, hiking season, etc.
I apologize if this is not the right community for this post. If there is a more appropriate community, please let me know, and I will repost this there.
Hi there, I was going to post this on your crosspost on !ultralight which is where I saw this first. I see that you’re more of an end user rather than someone uploading this info, but I’m gonna dump my spiel regardless I’m afraid:
If you are going to put this info somewhere I would suggest you dump the info on OpenStreetMap. The information you put onto OSM will get used EVERYWHERE else- komoot, alltrails, Osmand, Organic Maps, you name it. And the license is permissive so everyone else can use it. All Trails (to take an example) is all very well and good but all the nice pics, all the info, all your time and energy gets put into their nice little closed website which they then use to make THEIR website better and nobody else’s!
So at the very least, put the info you collect into OpenStreetMap first, and then elsewhere. There is a lot more info you can put into OSM than you may think at first glance. Width of trails, Trail difficulty, trail visibility, etc etc. All this gets put into tags. (even trail dangers if I remember correctly) This info then will improve the hiking experience for everyone using a mapping application around where you have mapped. (Everyone of course, except for people using google maps or apple maps, yuk!)
Now this extra bit is tailored more towards your original question, as an end user. The closest thing I can think of is hiking.waymarkedtrails.org as someone else put in here. The info, of course, comes from OSM. If the trail you are looking for isn’t marked there, you can put it into OSM and it will eventually make it onto that website. (As well as Osmand, and Organic Maps, and Komoot, and… you get me)
I would maybe check out Hiking project if your in North America. It looks really similar to all trails, except you have to download particular areas. The drawback is that the user input is almost nonexistent on smaller, local trails. More popular trails have some good info though. This definitely seems like it has promise.
Then theres Farout (formerly guthook) - I’ve heard this app mentioned alot as the preferred way to navigate trails like the AP or CDT. It costs money, and it’s not cheap, but you can download the app and continue as a guest and check put some of the free maps they provide.
I looked at options late last year and it’s All Trails or some other smaller proprietary communities. Would be nice if there was a FOSS community, I’d be concerned if All Trails started taking all that data and charging for access.
Ah, my apologies, I wasn’t specific enough in my intent for the post. I am looking for something akin to AllTrails – you search for a trail, and the site provides you with all of the relevent information: descriptions, pictures, waypoints, information about trail dangers, maps (that’s where OpenStreetMap would come in), time to complete the trail, distance, elevation gain, hiking season, etc.
EDIT: I have now updated the post so that it is more accurate in its intent.
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