1 Introduction
TRIP - Trip Recording and Itinerary Planner, is a web-based application
supporting trip recording and itinerary planning.
The intended use is for a hiker, mountain-biker or other adventurer, to be
able to publish and share their planned itinerary, then subsequently log their
positions at intervals, allowing someone else to be able to monitor their
progress.
In the event of contact being lost, the plans and tracking information can be
passed to rescue services etc., to assist with locating the missing
adventurer.
The application is
open-source
and can be obtained from
https://www.fdsd.co.uk/trip-server-2/.
The following features are provided:
- Remote tracking client applications such as
TripLogger Remote for iOS or
GPSLogger for Android can be used to submit
locations to the server.
- Sharing tracks with others.
- Viewing tracks on a map provided by a tile server,
e.g. OpenStreetMap tiles.
-
Creating and sharing itineraries using the
Markdown markup language.
- Using the map, interactively creating routes and waypoints for an itinerary.
- Uploading and downloading routes, tracks and waypoints for an itinerary as a
GPX file.
- Viewing routes, tracks and waypoints of an itinerary on the map.
- Splitting, simplifying and joining routes and tracks.
- Deleting individual points from routes and tracks.
- Account maintenance – uploading TripLogger settings.
- Account maintenance – password change.
- Itinerary shares report – list shared itineraries including nicknames.
- Itinerary search by coordinate and radius.
- Administration – user management.
- Administration – tile usage report.