How Trail Dayz works

Trails

299 trails: hiking-trail items from Wikidata ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them, plus a hand-picked list of famous hikes (for example Half Dome, Angels Landing, the Inca Trail and Platteklip Gorge) found through OpenStreetMap. Each trail has a trail point: the Wikidata coordinate where there is one, otherwise the first mapped point of the OpenStreetMap route. Route lines come from OpenStreetMap relations and are simplified. Very long routes show only a point. Fields with no source data are left blank.

By continent: Europe 190, North America 50, Asia 31, Oceania 23, South America 3, Africa 2.

Weather

Forecasts come from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0) for each trail point, fetched in batches. Weather-only label for the trail point, not a safety or trail-condition rating: Poor if a thunderstorm is forecast, precipitation chance is 70% or more, or max wind is 50 km/h (31 mph) or more. Fair if precipitation chance is 30% or more, or any drizzle, rain or snow is forecast. Otherwise Good.

Cams

Only public YouTube live streams that were live and allowed embedding when checked, within 30 km of the trail point or route line, or named for a place on the trail. Ski-operations views are left out. Cams play in YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode, and in regions that require consent they load only after you press play or allow them.

News

Headlines from publishers’ own RSS feeds, refreshed about every 15 minutes. Local stories for your country (worked out from your connection’s country) come first, in their original language. Links open the original article.

Ratings and hike logs

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