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[Feature request] Expand a trail successively with additional gps tracks
Hello!
There are trips that may take several days and for which several gpx tracks (e.g. per day) are generated. It would be nice, if I could expand a trail step by step (or day by day) with different following gpx tracks (according to my trip) to one big single one.
If I now share the trail with other users, they can see the current status of my journey at any time when they open my trail.
Jan
Hey!
You can currently replace the GPX file associated with a trail. So you could update your progress that way? Or are you suggesting to allow a trail to have multiple GPX tracks associated with it?
Hi!
Yes, the latter. One trail, where the day trips are added bit by bit (per different gpx files) and finally result in one big track (trail, journey).
Example: We're doing a lot of bikepacking tours lasting several days. Each day, I export the individual daily gpx track from my tracking app and it would be very nice to create one trail in wanderer at the beginning of the journey and expand the track in the trail map with the daily gpx track. So every time interested people look at my trail while I am travelling, they see the current status of my multi-day trip with all the previous photos, waypoints and one single track on the map. (depending on how often I upload gpx tracks, usually once a day)
I'm the same kind of user, doing multi-day trips (hiking or bikepacking), and indeed it would be nice to have a concept of "journeys/trips" in addition to trails - which are the current single-file tracks.
On top of
- the ability mentionned by OP to follow how a user progresses along a trip when uploading new segments - or live-broadcasting if anyone has an interest in that
- the ability for a user to explore a week or two-weeks long trip, with segments, photos and waypoints, as well as e.g. cumulative stats (distance/elevation gain/speed along the track, for the current segment/day or from the start of the trip) is helpful to better understand one's capabilities and plan future trips.
- this could longer-term also be useful for the tracks editor, helping a user cut a multi-day itinerary track into multiple segments, also showing each segments stats, for example in a table, to assess whether the chosen cutting is good or not
I've tried a lot of different web or android apps, Komoot has a nice way to display these multi-step trips on the web, see this example. When selecting one segment of the trip, this ends-up showing the single-trail portion, with a header that lets the user go back to the multi-segment view, or switch to the previous/next segment.
From a database design perspective I like @jo-chemla idea to rework lists into this feature. I think it should be easy enough to display all tracks contained in a list on a map and calculate the total length/height difference. I'll take a look at it.
Wow congrats on the implementation, that was fast and that "List of Trails" component is really nicely designed! Will try it out as soon as I get the chance.
This is very great and seems to work fine, thank you so much for it!
It would be nice, If one could share a list to public users - as described in #105
Should we close this issue now?