open-wanderer/wanderer
Wanderer
Wanderer is a self-hosted trail database and federated social network for storing GPS tracks and hiking routes. It functions as a GPX route manager and geographic route planner that allows users to catalog outdoor explorations in a private database.
The system utilizes the ActivityPub protocol to enable decentralized federation, allowing users to follow others and share activities across independent server instances. This social layer includes collaborative route exchange, engagement management for likes and comments, and granular content visibility controls.
The platform provides tools for importing GPS files and automatically synchronizing activity history from third-party providers. It includes capabilities for geographic route visualization, elevation calculations via external mapping services, and a specialized recording system for tracking summit logs.
Programmatic access to the trail data and user profiles is available through a JSON API secured by token-based authentication.
Features
- Trail Databases - Provides a self-hosted database for cataloging and searching outdoor travel tracks and hiking route metadata.
- GPX - Provides a centralized system for importing, cataloging, and organizing GPX files and trail metadata.
- Spatial Storage - Stores and organizes geographic coordinates and elevation data using standardized GPS exchange formats.
- Travel and Route Planning - Offers tools for designing future hiking journeys and visualizing paths with integrated mapping and elevation data.
- External File Imports - Supports the import of route data from standard geospatial file formats like GPX and TCX.
- Route Catalogues - Provides a searchable catalogue for uploading and organizing GPX and TCX route files of outdoor explorations.
- Track Archives - Provides a centralized database for storing and organizing GPS tracks for long-term record keeping.
- ActivityPub Implementations - Implements the ActivityPub protocol to allow user profiles and trail activities to be shared across a federated social web.
- Trail Databases - Combines a self-hosted GPS track database with ActivityPub federation to enable social sharing of hiking routes.
- Decentralized Content Distribution - Enables independent server installations to interact, follow users, and share outdoor content via decentralized protocols.
- Decentralized Social Networks - Implements a decentralized social network for sharing outdoor activities across independent server instances.
- User Profile Management - Manages user identities, account settings, and social relationships within the federated network.
- Federated Social Servers - Acts as a self-hosted node in a decentralized social network for following users and sharing outdoor activities.
- Geographic Route Visualization - Renders trail data on geographic maps to visualize paths and terrain spatially.
- Route Elevation Analysis - Integrates with external mapping services to calculate terrain elevation along specific travel paths.
- Route Exchanges - Enables users to share trail information and route files with others for collaborative outdoor exploration.
- Summit Logs - Includes a specialized recording system for organizing successful summit attempts and associated log entries.
- Custom Route Lists - Allows users to group related trails into custom lists based on user-defined categories.
- Content Metadata Tagging - Implements a tagging system to assign difficulty, terrain, and region markers to hiking routes.
- Social Interaction Systems - Implements likes, comments, and activity feeds to track and manage engagement with user profiles and trail content.
- Third-Party History Importers - Provides automated synchronization of route and activity history from third-party providers into the local database.
- Programmatic API Interfaces - Exposes a structured programmatic JSON interface for managing stored trail records and user data.
- Content Visibility Controls - Provides granular privacy settings to control whether specific trails and route lists are public or private.
- Geographic Information Services - Queries third-party geographic information services to compute route height and spatial metadata.
- Programmatic Content APIs - Provides a JSON API for programmatically querying and modifying stored trail information and user profiles.
- JSON APIs - Exposes a JSON API for programmatic access to trail data, user profiles, and outdoor activity workflows.
- Route Planners - Provides a mapping interface to design hiking paths and visualize spatial data with integrated elevation calculations.
