Feature
426,029 trails, and what they are like right now
A catalogue of waymarked paths rebuilt from OpenStreetMap, with the part a map cannot tell you added by the people who were just there.
The catalogue
What is in it
426,029 waymarked trails
Across 37 countries, built from OpenStreetMap data and rebuilt as the source data changes.
75 curated regions
Each described by its terrain, its season and what it is known for, so you can pick a region before you pick a path.
Conditions, dated
Dry, muddy, icy, snow, overgrown, flooded or closed, reported by whoever walked it, with the day they saw it.
Comments and photographs
Pictures are resized and stripped of their metadata, including location, before they are uploaded.
Terrain and climb
Distance, ascent and the shape of the profile, so you know what you are agreeing to before you drive there.
Free to browse
The catalogue is not behind the paywall.
Straight answers
The edges of the data
- It is walking infrastructure. Paths, footways, tracks and bridleways. The catalogue carries no cycling routes and no ski routes.
- Above 60 degrees north there is no elevation data. Trails that far north arrive without a climb profile rather than with a guessed one.
- It is OpenStreetMap, with everything that implies. The coverage is superb in some countries and thin in others, and a path that was rerouted last month may still be drawn the old way. The condition reports exist precisely because the map cannot know.
Licence
Where the data comes from
Trail data is © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). Waypath ingests it, indexes it by region and terrain, and adds the community layer on top. The underlying map stays what it is: a public good maintained by people who walk the paths.
Keep reading
Related
Find somewhere to go.
Browsing the trail catalogue is free, in 34 languages, with no account needed to record.
Requires iPhone. Recording is free and unlimited. Premium adds the deeper analysis.