After hiking the Te Araroa, I built a fully offline…
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After hiking the Te Araroa, I built a fully offline exploration app for remote hiking
Hi everyone,
I'm a mountain guide with an engineering and development background, and over the past 11 months I built an exploration app initially for my own use while hiking in remote areas.
This idea has been in my head for a long time, especially since walking the Te Araroa in New Zealand and developing a strong interest in long-distance thru-hikes.
I wanted a tool that works fully offline and turns real-world exploration into a global scratch-map — something that could work in very remote areas and support long journeys, even something like a 40,000 km walk around the world (a long-time childhood dream of mine).
While traveling and hiking in remote areas, I realized that no existing app combined everything in one place. So I started building my own.
The app includes:
• Fully offline maps
• Water sources (800k+) and shelters (14k+)
• Wild plant locations (75M+)
• Trail catalogue (300k+)
• Plant uses and recipes (500k+)
• Offline plant identification (PlantNet embedded)
• Exploration tracking and global scratch-map
It's also collaborative: users can contribute, comment, report, or rate trails, plants, water sources, and discoveries, helping build a shared knowledge base for remote hiking.
Plant identification is only intended as a support tool. Reliability indicators are shown, toxic species are flagged, and users are encouraged to cross-check information carefully.
I built everything solo — frontend, backend, and datasets.
The goal is simple: turn real-world exploration into a collaborative tool for hikers and long-distance walkers.
Happy to share a link if anyone wants to try it.
I'd love feedback from hikers, thru-hikers, and explorers.
#hiking #activity #camping
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Hi everyone,
I'm a mountain guide with an engineering and development background, and over the past 11 months I built an exploration app initially for my own use while hiking in remote areas.
This idea has been in my head for a long time, especially since walking the Te Araroa in New Zealand and developing a strong interest in long-distance thru-hikes.
I wanted a tool that works fully offline and turns real-world exploration into a global scratch-map — something that could work in very remote areas and support long journeys, even something like a 40,000 km walk around the world (a long-time childhood dream of mine).
While traveling and hiking in remote areas, I realized that no existing app combined everything in one place. So I started building my own.
The app includes:
• Fully offline maps
• Water sources (800k+) and shelters (14k+)
• Wild plant locations (75M+)
• Trail catalogue (300k+)
• Plant uses and recipes (500k+)
• Offline plant identification (PlantNet embedded)
• Exploration tracking and global scratch-map
It's also collaborative: users can contribute, comment, report, or rate trails, plants, water sources, and discoveries, helping build a shared knowledge base for remote hiking.
Plant identification is only intended as a support tool. Reliability indicators are shown, toxic species are flagged, and users are encouraged to cross-check information carefully.
I built everything solo — frontend, backend, and datasets.
The goal is simple: turn real-world exploration into a collaborative tool for hikers and long-distance walkers.
Happy to share a link if anyone wants to try it.
I'd love feedback from hikers, thru-hikers, and explorers.
#hiking #activity #camping
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