Near useless w/o data governance – Wikiloc Outdoor Navigation GPS Review

An aesthetically pleasing app that is nearly useless as a trails guide. It might be OK for that one social trail somebody made in the middle of nowhere (which are probably not in keeping with Leave No Trace). For even a moderately popular hike though, expect to see dozens or more trail markers in clusters around parking and trailheads, for every single person who recorded the same exact hike and probably called it something different. The developers invoke the “Wiki“ title, but it’s more akin to every user creating creating their own wikipedia article for the same famous person, rather than multiple people maintaining the quality of the same article. I hope the developers will consider that quantity degrades quality, and consider a different approach to the governance of user-submitted data
Review by Neberheim on Wikiloc Outdoor Navigation GPS.