How to manage your routes and tourist activities

One of the favorite things of people is traveling and knowing new cultures, places and gastronomy, it has become very important manage tourist routes and activities that we do, that is why the free software community has created geotrek, an excellent tool that will allow us to know, plan and document our trips and tours.

What is Geotrek?

geotrek is an open source tool, which is made up of 3 applications (Geotrek Admin: for data management, Geotrek Rando: for the promotion of activities and Geotrek Mobile: to locate and explore any territory). It consists of a GIS work tool, a website and a mobile application.

Geotrek Admin

It is a business application that offers GIS functionality, Geotrek Admin allows you to draw and manage linear rises, with sections and topological networks.

Through its functional modules and with dynamic segmentation, it is possible to enrich the database geotrek With descriptive information, PDI, actions, it also allows information on tourist activities, such as visits, festivals, exhibitions, accommodation, among others.

It is possible to integrate the information from the tourist information systems and carry out the import - export of geographic data. Geotrek-Admin

Geotrek Rando

It is a website that allows the promotion of the territory through the publication of the information entered in Geotrek Admin. The platform makes known all the information of a given site, including its geography, places of interest, culture and other characteristics of a region.

Through a specific search, the user finds all the information about excursions, outdoor activities, cultural heritage, events, accommodation, restaurants, among others.

Oriented to the choice of accommodation, the web portal facilitates the preparation to choose one in the best conditions: advice, descriptive texts, illustrations, tourist guides.

Geotrek Rando

Geotrek Rando

Geotrek Mobile

This intuitive and ergonomic mobile application provides access to all the information of a place, with or without an Internet connection.

It is aimed at any audience and for any activity, the tool offers the possibility of filtering routes based on the user's position and various criteria (duration, difficulty, elevation…). It also has other features, such as GPS alerts, automatic updates, dynamic route display (departure and arrival, route, points of interest), among others.

Geotrek Mobile is available from Android e iOS, the mobile app is largely fed by the data Geotrek Rando. Like this one, it offers the download of detailed and illustrated guides.

Geotrek Mobile

Geotrek Mobile

Top Uses of Geotrek

In summary, the most important uses of geotrek are:

  • Manage routes, excursions and points of interest.
  • Maintenance of roads, equipment and infrastructures.
  • Control by zones, protected areas, physical and legal state of the roads.
  • Calculate 3D attributes using DEM draping.
  • Publish a public website of your adventures or your tourist sites as Urban Mind.

How to install GeoTrek

We can install GeoTrek both in a production environment and experimentally and test it immediately.

Requirements to install GeoTrek

Ubuntu Server 12.04 or Ubuntu Server 14.04

It must be recorded with the following resources:

  • Minimum 1GB of RAM
  • 10GB of available disk space

Geotrek Installation

Once the operating system is installed (basic installation, with the OpenSSH server), install the latest version with the following commands:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/makinacorpus/Geotrek/master/install.sh> install.sh chmod + x install.sh ./install.sh

We must edit the base configuration file ( settings.ini).

To ensure that the application runs fine after restarting, try now:. And access the application.sudo reboothttp://yourserver/

To make sure the application runs fine after restart, run the following command: sudo reboot. and then access the application http://yourserver/.

You will be asked to sign in, go to the data upload section , to create the admin user and fill the database with their data.


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  1.   José said

    Very interesting, but the article falls short.
    It does not give information about the app or how to manage rando, if they have a cost and how to access and manage the content.