Hikerplaces

The free travel guide to the wilderness that anyone can edit.

Hikerplaces is a place where hikers and trail maintaining organizations can collaborate to make guidebooks for hiking trails such as the Appalachian Trail. The guidebooks can be customized and printed or saved to a phone to be used as a reference guide while on a backpacking trip. Anyone can add a new place or trail path by creating an article on the site with its geographic coordinates, and the guidebook sections are automatically updated. Each section features a list of the places and their distance along the path of the trail, an interactive map, and an elevation profile explorer gadget.

Hikerplaces makes heavy use of Semantic Mediawiki. The properties of the articles for places and trail legs (a subsection of a longer trail) contain geographic data that is aggregated to create the guidebook sections.