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Show HN: Ambulate – Detailed Trip Planning

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93 points _phnd_ | 5 comments | 22 Oct 24 12:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.576s | source

Ambulate was created because planning hiking trips using spreadsheets and various map solutions got chaotic. I wanted an app to manage and map multi day trip itineraries in the outdoors/backcountry.

Features - Manage itineraries - Add activities and map markers - Add routes (upload GPX or plot by hand on map) - Desktop and mobile

It is free to try (login using Google or create a user). Alternatively the slides on the home page give an idea of the UI.

I'll appreciate any thoughts and feedback you care to share:)

1. qmarchi ◴[22 Oct 24 13:40 UTC] No.41914157[source]▶
How does this compare against something like Wanderlog?

Would be nice to see a little more detail on the individual features on the main page.

Oh and your copyright is out of date.

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2. warkdarrior ◴[22 Oct 24 16:17 UTC] No.41915849[source]▶
Are any of these apps open source and available for self hosting? Currently I am using a combination of Google Maps, spreadsheets, Joplin notes, and email to plan my trips. An app that replaces all of that and I can self host would be ideal.

Edit: Additional feature would love to see -- merge the trip plan with photos from the trip and send draft or publish to SSG/blog of choice.

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3. gelatocar ◴[22 Oct 24 23:27 UTC] No.41919824[source]▶
I tried using wanderlog on a recent 4 month long trip and it became totally unusable after adding maybe 2 months worth of things to it. It has some really baffling UI/UX decisions too, like not showing the address of accommodations, just the name. Really made me feel like no one working on it had ever tried to use it when actually traveling.

They had also gone big on AI slop for recommendations which made it really hard to trust any advice in the lists of things to do.

I think these sort of travel apps are really hard to find an audience for. Very very few people travel often enough to pay a subscription and it is hard to justify spending significant money as a one-off purchase when traveling is already so expensive.

4. _phnd_ ◴[23 Oct 24 11:31 UTC] No.41923889[source]▶
The concepts seem at first glance to be similar, but I think the main difference is that Ambulate emphasizes creating a map that can be used for actual navigation along side the itinerary (plotting routes and adding map markers).

Wanderlog seems to be more about organizing the overall activities, where the travel activities are just points on the itinerary, e.g. get a flight from A to B.

Copyright is updated, thanks for pointing that out!

5. _phnd_ ◴[23 Oct 24 11:46 UTC] No.41923975[source]▶
Ambulate is GPLv3, source code at https://github.com/oliverfields/tripplanner2.

It depends on Firebase for authorization and a S3 bucket for storage.

Copy dotenv.local_example to .env.local and add relevant info, then use npm run serve, to run locally.

Nice idea to merge trip plan and photos:)