Is there a more free version of Alltrails? I find Alltrails to be too paywalled when I don’t even think they deserve my money. What exactly do they even do? The community creates everything and it’s not like they’re contributing to the Maps community or anything.

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      1 month ago

      That’s beautiful! Add federation and this could really be something I feel (and obviously there’d have to be a few good public servers because fediverse people and hikers probably don’t have a huge overlap).

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          3 days ago

          Mainly not having it be centralised. See, I can host my own. My local scout organisation can host their own. Maybe some other regional body can host their own. They have their own thing going, but they also have seamless integration with other services.

          For something I’m self-hosting, there’s no way there will be a big user base and a lot of public trails and such crowdsourced. But with a federated alternative I think we could see a very healthy form of crowdsourcing.

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            Oh yea I see now. So by many users self-hosting and it being federated, it would allow for shared data across instances like trail conditions, weather conditions, new trails, etc. Seems like a great idea

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      1 month ago

      This is amazing, I need to install this ASAP. Are you using it yourself?

      Wonder if there’s some sort of resource to import great hikes from.