Wikiloc


Wikiloc is a website, launched in 2006, that offers for free GPS trails and waypoints that members can upload and share. This mashup shows the routes in frames showing Google Maps. The service is also available in Google Earth. There are mobile apps for Android and iPhone. The product has more than 4.5M members, is offered in many languages and has more than 11.6M tracks of dozens of activities in many countries and territories. Wikiloc began as a worldwide online reference for hiking.

Technology

Wikiloc is completely made with free software. It uses HTML and JavaScript in the web browser, while in the server is made with Linux, PostgreSQL database manager with PostGIS for geography support, Apache software, Hibernate, GEOS, GDAL and PROJ.4, with some Python for preprocess and maintenance.

Awards

Among others, Wikiloc has won the following prizes: