I’m a huge fan of @alltrails and started using it during the pandemic when gyms were closed. Four years I haven’t been back to a gym to use the treadmill and instead take my dogs on hikes around the Seattle area every weekend.
This app realy got me to unlock a bunch of great trails and parks in my city. I love that it’s getting well deserved recognition.
#WikiLoc does that for me: an app to find trails and also to record your own. Trivial to use and with enough trails recorded in to be very useful just about anywhere – both mountain and sea side, also cities. Walking, by bicycle or even by boat. And it's free; to record one's trails, the paid option is trivially inexpensive.
WikiLoc has been around since 2007 or so. Long history. And the CEO and most of the team remains the same: outstanding stability.
At the moment, the #WikiLoc app provides sensible results: actual trails walked by actual people, often with photos and a nice description and properties of the trail and site. Given that it's little more than recorded GPS traces from real people, there's a wide variety of places, including cities, villages, fields, and mountains. On foot, bicycle, and even other forms of transportation.
No affiliation, I just find the app actually useful in its present form. Here is to hoping it won't change.
The only hope is that #WikiLoc becomes a foundation or non-profit, so that it can't be bought and shut down.
Was founded by and remains in the hands of a bunch of Catalans, which, being Catalan myself and understanding the love for nature, community and "associationism" [1] of my culture, it gives me hope. But no guarantees as of yet.