Over the last two months, I developed wanderer. It is a self-hosted alternative to sites like alltrails.com or in other words a self-hosted trail database. It started out more as a small hobby project to teach myself some new technologies but in the end, I decided to develop it into a fully-fledged application.
Core Features:
Manage your trails
Extensive map integration and visualization
Share trails with other people and explore theirs
Advanced filter and search functionality
Create custom lists to organize your trails further
Nice ! You made me think of spinning up a little server. It’s been a while since I’ve dabbled in managing a server and not aure I have the time for that.
But you made the chances if me going for it much higher.
Absolutely. I have it running on a Pi 5 and that’s more than enough. You only need 1GB of RAM when first starting wanderer. After that it sits at around 100Mb.
Strava has continued to enshittify the app to the point that I’m getting ads after every activity. Anyway, I decided to delete it after yesterday’s run and will keep an eye on this project. Thanks!
You mean after the price hike they also hiked the number of ads? I canceled when they hiked the price and managed to get it down to the old price a few months later, so I renewed for the personal heatmap. Looks like I’m definitely canceling again. I doubt they’ll give me the price break twice anyway.
Baking ads into a timeline like Strava and some other apps do has to be the worst app trend ever.
Strava lost me when they jacked up prices while simultaneously not providing a dark mode and continuing to neglect their paying users’ requests to acquire some semblance of control over their feed.
I’m a mountain biker and I like to see my friends’ mountain bike rides. Instead my feed is jam-packed full of dog-walkers, Trainer Road and Zwift ads, and suggested/recommended “challenges” and “clubs”.
I’m done. Yet another platform relegated to “post and ghost”.
Much like Facebook, you can’t use a DNS blocker when the ads are being served by and from the website itself. There are some scripts you can run in the desktop browser that help a little but they’re usually not maintained, and Strava is constantly changing things, and they don’t work on the app.
I removed my account a few years ago when they moved a bunch of features behind their paywall. I’m perfectly fine just using Garmin’s built in ‘news feed’ and tracking without giving my data to another company.
This is very nice :) I was working on a proof of concept similar to this to have a quick search functionality for FrankenJura (german hiking database) but it was lost in a drawer due to lack of time 😁 Great work and thanks for sharing it :)
If I recall correctly, I couldn‘t find API endpoints back then and had to browse/prse the pges based on the regions and the links on the landing pages 😅
Because using a containerization system to run multiple services on the same machine is vastly superior to running everything bare metal? Both from a security and a ease-of-use standpoint. Why wouldnt you use docker?
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Nice ! You made me think of spinning up a little server. It’s been a while since I’ve dabbled in managing a server and not aure I have the time for that. But you made the chances if me going for it much higher.
Would a raspberry pi 4 be enough for running it ?
Absolutely. I have it running on a Pi 5 and that’s more than enough. You only need 1GB of RAM when first starting wanderer. After that it sits at around 100Mb.
Wow, this looks super! 🙌
Just cross-posted this to OpenSource. Thank you so Mich. This is great.
This looks amazing! Going to play with it tonight. Thanks!!
Strava has continued to enshittify the app to the point that I’m getting ads after every activity. Anyway, I decided to delete it after yesterday’s run and will keep an eye on this project. Thanks!
You mean after the price hike they also hiked the number of ads? I canceled when they hiked the price and managed to get it down to the old price a few months later, so I renewed for the personal heatmap. Looks like I’m definitely canceling again. I doubt they’ll give me the price break twice anyway.
Baking ads into a timeline like Strava and some other apps do has to be the worst app trend ever.
If you just like the personal heat map then checkout grrrmin_heatmap. It’s a pretty flexible python script for generating them.
This appears to be what I’ve been looking for. I can’t wait to try it. Thanks for sharing.
Fittrackee has been what I use instead of Strava. Also FOSS.
Thanks for the recommendation, looking into it as well.
Strava lost me when they jacked up prices while simultaneously not providing a dark mode and continuing to neglect their paying users’ requests to acquire some semblance of control over their feed.
I’m a mountain biker and I like to see my friends’ mountain bike rides. Instead my feed is jam-packed full of dog-walkers, Trainer Road and Zwift ads, and suggested/recommended “challenges” and “clubs”.
I’m done. Yet another platform relegated to “post and ghost”.
Strava has ads now? I use NextDNS on my devices so assuming this is filtering out their ads.
Much like Facebook, you can’t use a DNS blocker when the ads are being served by and from the website itself. There are some scripts you can run in the desktop browser that help a little but they’re usually not maintained, and Strava is constantly changing things, and they don’t work on the app.
I removed my account a few years ago when they moved a bunch of features behind their paywall. I’m perfectly fine just using Garmin’s built in ‘news feed’ and tracking without giving my data to another company.
Wow. I aspire to be as knowledgeable as you one day. This motivated me.
This is very nice :) I was working on a proof of concept similar to this to have a quick search functionality for FrankenJura (german hiking database) but it was lost in a drawer due to lack of time 😁 Great work and thanks for sharing it :)
Happy to help. If you can get a dump of the database it should be quite easy to import it into wanderer via the API 👍
If I recall correctly, I couldn‘t find API endpoints back then and had to browse/prse the pges based on the regions and the links on the landing pages 😅
Any chance to pack it into a single container instead of three? Would make it easier to work with unraid.
Database is rarely, if ever bundled into the app container, unless it’s SQLite.
Yes, unraid community apps are a bit unconventional in this regard, everything needed should be in one container here.
What’s the scope of this, just a route catalogue or will it sort of become a hiking tracker as well?
wanderer currently parses distance, elevation gain, duration and speed. Parsing heart rate would be an easy addition, though.
That would be a great addition, I could use it as a history of my hikes then!
The screenshot looks awesome! I’m currently on vacation and will definitely try it out.
Very interesting, I like the screenshots! Will definitely check this out.
Amazing!
Looks great!
I actually use Nextcloud
But why the Docker :(((
Because using a containerization system to run multiple services on the same machine is vastly superior to running everything bare metal? Both from a security and a ease-of-use standpoint. Why wouldnt you use docker?
Read just a bit further and they explain how to install from source, although I don’t see why you would go through the hassle
You can also install it directly on your machine: https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer/wiki/Installation#from-source
It’s just much more tedious imo.