Any good hiker knows it:
take a previously marked path
makes it more pleasant and practicable
because we avoid the errors of course that others have done before us.
Everyone is then free to adapt their walk to their desires,
to discover new points of view and paths,
like to benefit others.
These feelings of freedom and sharing,
we wanted to make it more than a credo:
we made it a tool, available to everyone.
Geotrek, it's a set of open-source solutions
created to manage, administer and promote hiking and the outdoors
in the most open way and autonomous that is.
No centralized platform, no single governance,
because no membership is necessary.
Thus, public or private actor - whoever you are! -
you are free to download Geotrek for free
and make its features your own,
use your own technical resources to deploy this open source tool,
like to connect it with other systems.
On the one hand, Geotrek-Admin allows,
through an interface enriched with multiple modules,
management of hiking trails, routes,
sites, outdoor trails
and the heritages associated with them,
including their signage, infrastructure and maintenance.
The other, Geotrek-Rando and Geotrek-Mobile
are promotional tools fully customizable
with your colors and according to your content,
real dynamic and pratical guides of your territories
intended for practitioners of activities and tourists.
In 2012, we were a handful of actors to launch this initiative.
Today, around a hundred structures take advantage of these tools
and continues to enrich them, by pooling each new feature.
Locally, collaborations are being built to share Geotrek
and promote together the itineraries and outdoor practices in the same territory.
It's this desire for freedom and the co-construction that drives us,
and we carry it thanks to a community of users and partners
passionate, active and involved,
who unite for the same purpose:
keep Geotrek going,
and bring the tool and the most beautiful ideas towards new horizons.