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Geoadmin
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Swiss Maps Are Full of Hidden Secrets
https://map.geo.admin.ch/
Herewith the map site.
I have to admit, the maps (at any zoom levels) are quite beautiful. Much much better than the likes of Apple or Google!
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Help an American plan properly for vacation in the Swiss Alps. I'm going in July with my wife, we are not going to do any steep technical climbing but walking around on glaciers and hiking a lot of distance. I'm from the PNW and I think the snow/terrain is a lot different here. Scroll 👉
https://map.geo.admin.ch/ and the Swisstopo app. Great map quality and the app works fine on the go, even without mobile data. All free.
If you can understand any French or German, get ahold of one of the CAS guides - tons of good info. Check the CAS website for ideas and also https://map.schweizmobil.ch/?lang=en (or https://map.geo.admin.ch/) for hikes/scrambles/approaches (look for the red and blue=class 4 lines). This is the world's most meticulously mapped country (Swisstopo does amazing work)... I could spend hours just looking at the maps.
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Free source of historical weather data for Switzerland
You have some data on https://map.geo.admin.ch/ regarding the weather / sun time / pollen / etc. but I'm not sure you can access much historical data. But Most likely they have it somewhere as an API...there is also https://www.geocat.ch/ which can help find data on geo.admin.ch.
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OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities
In my country, there is an amazing government mandated service called Swiss Topo (https://map.geo.admin.ch), which can be accessed freely. Here are some features:
- detailed maps from 1:10,000 to 1:1,000,000
- hiking routes which are actively maintained. You can create your own hiking routes, and it will estimate the time that it will take to complete them.
- historical data, like historical maps since 1864 and aerial photos
- aeronautical maps, naval charts, geological maps, ...
- basically any kind of data that you can find on maps, such as land registery, water planning, spatial planning, etc.
I am not sure if other countries provide this level of service free of charge. I would be curious to see what other countries offer on this topic.
OwnTracks Recorder
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Google maps tracking alternative
Some people have issues installing Own Track's Recorder - This one is very minimal and saves your locations to an sqlite file.
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What are your top self hosted services that you are very satisfied with ?
I also use OwnTracks on my phone and installed OwnTracks Recorder on my server. I skimmed over my blog post for that but I don't think there's much useful for you there.
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none of the location tracking/sharing services are any good
I've looked at OwnTracks, Orion, and Hauk.
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OwnTracks – keep track of your own location
As far as I know, owntracks doesn't actually store location history, it only defines a protocol for exchanging current location info between programs. If you're using their "official" recording server, writing a script to import history looks super easy [1].
[0] https://github.com/owntracks/recorder/blob/master/doc/STORE....
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Open-source, self-hosted location tracking with OwnTracks and Grafana
After setting up the client side, a server-side component to receive the OwnTracks app's requests is still missing. OwnTracks ships with its Recorder, which is a small and simple web application written in C. However, I did not like it a lot, as it does not look particularly beautiful and is very limited regarding its functionality. I rather wanted to visualize my data in Grafana. But to get it there, it first needs to be persisted to a database.
What are some alternatives?
Traccar - Traccar GPS Tracking System
Orion - Robust web visualization tool for OwnTracks location data
Openstreetmap - The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap
uMap - uMap lets you create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site.
web-mapviewer - The viewer application for maps and geodata. Managed by geoadmin/infra-terraform-github-bgdi
gpslogger - :satellite: Lightweight GPS Logging Application For Android.
μlogger - μlogger • web viewer for tracks uploaded with μlogger mobile client
Graphhopper - Open source routing engine for OpenStreetMap. Use it as Java library or standalone web server.