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Find the nearest Canadian hike with new iPhone app.

Ottawa, ON’s Trailpeak.com launches service with access to some 10,000 hikes.

by Masa Takei 11 March 2010

The iPhone may now join the Ten Essentials of backcountry travel in Canada. Just last spring an Ottawa, ON-based company, Trailpeak.com, launched an Apple application that points users to the nearest hiking trails.

The mobile app leverages a storehouse of almost all of the 10,000 hikes that Trailpeak.com offers online, with detailed beta and maps. Reading the GPS position of the mobile user’s unit, the service delivers the closest options to the would-be hiker’s location. Viewing the hikes on the iPhone is entirely free, but there’s also premium annual memberships available on the website.

Being a community-driven, social-networking site (as well as Canada’s largest trails website), Trailpeak.com offers a karmic alternative: upload GPS information about a new trail online, and a member is entitled to download three from the database. Between 100,000 to 150,000 people share info through the site each month, so the content is regularly vetted by user feedback.

And if, even with all this, you do happen to get lost, use your iPhone to call for help, or at least listen to some good music while you wait for rescue.

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Sam wrote:
11 March 2010 | @ 12:30pm

Pretty neat app.

As any other community-driven database, I hope it becomes popular and offer great coverage and accuracy.

Hope its developers consider making it available on the Android platform too :)

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