Hello, and thanks for visiting Wikiloc!

The goal of Wikiloc is to help you share and discover GPS tracks and waypoints from around the World in an easy way

Jordi L. Ramot, founder

I'm a Software Engineer specialized in the geospatial interoperability field. I graduated with a MS in Computer Science from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

I started my professional career back in 1995 leading a GIS department in a regional government agency, later on I joined a private company specialized in LBS and Internet Mapping, moved to Vancouver (BC,Canada) in 2001 to collaborate with a leading company in GML (Geography Markup Language), returned to Spain and I'm currently at iogeo.com, where we make geospatial information systems work together following OpenGeospatial standards.

On the geek side, I like statically-typed languages like Java, dynamic languages like Python and Unix-like operating systems

In 2006 I started to work on Wikiloc in my spare time and nowadays we're a growing community of thousands of outdoor enthusiasts sharing our best outdoor routes from anywhere around this beatiful planet.

When not in the office I like to be in the mountains hiking, back-country skiing or mountain biking

I hope you find wikiloc useful and that it helps you get the most of your GPS. You can help me to improve the service by  what you think of the app

Thanks to the following members for translating Wikiloc to other languages:

• Manuel Xosé Lemos for translating Wikiloc to Galego
• Marco Giulio Giolfo for translating Wikiloc to Italian
• Pontus Olénson for translating Wikiloc to Swedish
• Chris Boogmans for translating Wikiloc to Dutch
• André Kraut for translating Wikiloc to Deutsch
• Arion for translating Wikiloc to Greek
• Larry for translating Wikiloc to Ukrainian

      French translation has been possible thanks to:

• Joaquín Muñoz
• Eric Klinger including wikiloc's help translation

      Euskera translation has been possible thanks to:

• Iñaki Arrieta Baro
• Jesus Romo Uriarte
• Juanjo Barandiaran Arratibel
• Lore Goenaga Mendiola

Wikiloc is a free service built with the following free software:

• GNU/Linux
• PostgreSQL Database
• PostGIS
• GEOS geometry library
• Proj4 reprojection library
• Apache Software
• Hibernate

Thanks to the following people for sharing their knowledge and work on the Net:

• Geonames.org team, for one of the most relevant web services on the Net
• Mike Williams, for his excellent documentation of the Google Maps API
• Kyle Mulka, for sharing his ideas on how to use third party map servers with Google Maps
• Ron Henderson, for the G7ToWin conversor
• Robert Lipe and team for GPSBabel (used internally in wikiloc)
• Mark James, for sharing his nice icon library with everyone
• Radio Paradise for so many hours of good music

And last but not least, thanks to The Google Maps and Google Earth teams for revolutionizing the concept of Internet Mapping