by Ricardo Morin
A guide to registering, uploading, geotagging, and editing your adventures
In my previous post, I walked through how to explore tracks on the new RikiTraki. This post flips the perspective. It is for track contributors. If you want to upload your own hikes, bike rides, runs, or adventures, this guide walks you through everything you need to know.
It’s hard to believe it’s been more than a decade since I first built RikiTraki. What started as a simple way to collect and share my own GPS tracks slowly grew into something larger, and along the way it picked up old choices, shortcuts, and workarounds that I always wanted to revisit.
This year I finally took the time to rebuild it from the ground up.
It has been a while since my last update, so I wanted to share some news about what has been happening behind the scenes. Rikitraki has been running quietly and reliably since 2016, and over the past few months I’ve been working on something that has been on my mind for a long time: a full refresh of the backend.
Wow! I can’t believe it’s been five years since I developed Rikitraki. A lot of things have changed in Web development since then, so I think it is time to implement some sorely needed renovations.
Some of the changes are simply to bring the code up to snuff with today’s best practices. But some other changes will be functionality improvements that I have been thinking about for a long time.
In this post, I lay out what I am thinking for the next big release. Comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Wow, I can’t believe that my last post was back in July. I have been pretty busy with some consulting work I am doing in the Internet of Things (IoT) field. Pretty exciting! But I am committed to continuing supporting and improving RikiTraki…
You can easily embed a track that you have uploaded to RikiTraki, by using the html iframe tag. Simply insert an iframe tag in your post or page with a link to the trail, like shown in the example below. Notice how it is not merely an image of the track, but the active RikiTraki site which you can fully interact with!
Before I report of my FOSS4G NA experiences including a quick summary of my favorite talks, here I am posting my final presentation slides:
This is just a brief post summarizing a few improvements I implemented recently on the 3D visualization part.
I would like to share some exciting changes I made to RikiTraki recently.
First, an invitation code is no longer required in order to create an account on RikiTraki so that you can upload your own GPS tracks and associated pictures right away. So essentially it means that we are on open beta now.