Any sites/apps for sharing and rating hiking/hillwalking routes?

garage_greg

In Germany, there are many hiking/hillwalking trails. Is there any apps or sites that allow people to share hiking routes? Where I can try to search for nice places people have been, or create my own routes ("I want to do a 20km hike in a circle, starting from within 50km of some town, and there should be a restaurant near the middle for lunch"). Sites like Strava for fitness allow you to share runs and cycle trips you've done. Is there anything...

Originally asked by Amandasaurus on Stack Exchange (outdoors) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Sharing and downloading routes done by others Concerning sites where you can upload and share GPS tracks you could have a look at http://www.gpsies.com/ . There are lots of GPS tracks for hiking, cycling, mountain biking, running, skating, horse riding,... you name it. The extended search allow to filter routes for the things you ask for, e.g. of course the type of activity you want to do – either roughly ("give me all activities by foot") or precisely ("give me hiking, jogging and nordic walking") distance from a certain point, distance covered, round trip or one way track characteristics (flat, hilly, mountainous) path quality (compacted, rough, smooth, rocky...) and some other... The...

Full answer by Benedikt Bauer: https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/a/8224 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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