Today I'm using Alltrails and also Trailforks to find hiking and mtb trails. However, I'm also trying to replace as many proprietary apps and services with open source alternatives. So, what is the best open source alternatives to Alltrails and Trailforks?

I have seen Wanderer which looks like what I'm looking for, but perhaps there are other alternatives with more users/trails or something else that makes it better?
Endurain is, as I understand it, for self-hosting which is nice but I also want to see trails that other people have uploaded in order to be inspired and find good trails when I visit a new place.

Are there any other sites I should consider?

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[–] Krafting@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wanderer is pretty fun, more user curated things, some are shitty some are high quality, depends, plus you can just contrubute your route too! And the fact that it's activity pub powered is a nice bonus

[–] Kjell@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I want to be able to upload my trails as well. My plan is to set up Endurain on my server and transfer everything from Garmin to my server. Then I can select trails and upload to Wanderer or other sites. That way I will be in control of all hiking/running/mtb that I do but I will still contribute to the community by adding routes.

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How does the activity pub part works? How do I find and federate with other servers? @illusionist@lemmy.zip

[–] Krafting@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is enabled by default, you just need other server to be able to contact your server by https. Then you'll see other servers content on your timeline, of course as always with activity pub, you might need to kickstart it by following a few people first.

You can also follow people from a wanderer instance on mstdon then you'll get posts with links to the trails :)

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks, I'll install it.