Tonight I've been busy migrating wikiloc to a faster box. After almost 2 years of good service, it was already time to give a break to the former server. From now on looking for our next GPS trail or just browsing photos and maps will be much faster :)
Enjoy!
Btw: if you're getting the 'plumber' page, pages not found or other issues, please be patient since DNS refreshes may span several hours
Seeing photos of a trail it's a great way to get an idea of how the surrounding and landscapes of the route look like, you may even see which terrain you'll find. And since more and more authors are adding nice photos of the routes (almost 10.000 photos already) I'm glad to announce that we may additionally add YouTube™ videos of our GPS tracks. This is a new feature that we may use to better describe our routes.
Here you have one of Tom's kayac trips in Norway:
You may watch the video by clicking on the video thumbnail above.
Well... frankly this time I don't know where to start. Recently we've released a major redesign of Wikiloc with so many improvements that I think the best way for you to see them is by doing a tour by yourself :)
You may find specially interesting new features like:
- New map page: improved browsing experience to discover new tracks
- A revamped upload process: now it is easier and faster to upload tracks
- A new KML feed to explore and easily discover routes with Google Earth
- Almost 9.000 tracks uploaded until now, 9000 photos and we're already a growing community of nearly 10000 members.
So thanks to you all that make possible wikiloc. So far we've received many great suggestions that are the basis for upcoming improvements, so feel free to contact me at jordi ,at, wikiloc.com or in the forum
and... stay tunned, more changes are coming :)
Jordi
Recently Google added a new Terrain (Physical) map layer to Google Maps and I immediately received a request from a user (thanks Potxoki!) in the wikiloc's forum to add it to Wikiloc. It's ready and you may activate it by clicking on the "Terrain" button in the top-right area of the map.
And of course you may choose to show this layer as default in your embedded mini-maps (aka: miniwikiloc) Read here to see how easy it is to embed and customize your trail maps on your website or weblog:
Enjoy!
--Jordi
Thank you to Eric Klinger for his effort reviewing the French translation of wikiloc's UI and also for translating wikiloc's help page to French.
More translations are very welcome, just drop me an e-mail at jordi A T wikiloc.com.
You can visit the 'about Wikiloc' page for a complete list of collaborators.
[Text in English below]
Gracias a la colaboración de Pontus Olénson Wikiloc está disponible en Sueco.
Puedes visitar la página de agradecimientos de Wikiloc para ver la lista completa de colaboradores.
Y más buenas noticias: a partir de ahora puedes buscar rutas y puntos de interés que contengan una palabra o texto en su nombre, descripción, etiquetas o nombre del autor. Espero que con esta nueva opción nos sea a todos más fácil encontrar datos GPS para la próxima salida!
[English]
Thanks to Pontus Olénson Wikiloc is available in Swedish!
You may visit the about page for a complete list of collaborators.
And more good news: from now on you may search by specifying a keyword. Search results will include all trails and waypoints with that keyword in their name, description, tags or author's name. Hopefully with this new feature it'll be easier for everyone to find GPS data for our next trip.
Si quieres saber cómo encontrar rutas GPS directamente en Google Earth, en este post de SandyDay lo describen perfectamente; muestran cómo utilizarlo y las posibilidades del feed KML de Wikiloc (incluso cómo navegar a lo largo de una ruta) con un vídeo.
En este post pasado también presentaba el feed KML de Wikiloc, aunque sin vídeo y en inglés... :-)
