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Show HN: Ambulate – Detailed Trip Planning

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93 points _phnd_ | 2 comments | 22 Oct 24 12:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.475s | 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. tonymet ◴[22 Oct 24 20:13 UTC] No.41918205[source]▶
this space has huge potential . On one end you have Google & Apple maps that are aimed at efficient commutes. On the other hand you have experiencing planning apps like Tripadvisor, All Trails, Instagram which help you brainstorm on all the adventures.

Eventually you get to a point where you need a detailed itinerary of waypoints, maps, resources etc to help guide a multi-week or multi-month trip.

Currently no app supports this space. it's almost overwhelming to juggle 3 mapping apps (google, apple, gaia), multiple adventure apps , google docs, google sheets and try to run a trip .

And having the content all available offline is key. It's the worst experience being somewhere unfamiliar, with a taxi driver houding you, and you don't know where to go.

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2. _phnd_ ◴[23 Oct 24 12:14 UTC] No.41924188[source]▶
Ambulate was made to address your needs - a central place to plan a trip.

You are exactly right about offline being key! Routes are downloadable to your devices. A future feature is to export the whole trip itinerary and maps to pdf for offline use.