New track rating app - feedback required

[red1234]

Hi guys

I'm in the process of releasing a new app that will hopefully make 4wding and exploring the bush easier and safer. Its purpose is to provide up-to-date track information for popular tracks in oz, to allow better route planning and safer navigation. Users can see up-to-date track difficulty and conditions on any given day or week for all Australian tracks.

The app was inspired by issues I have personally had with planning trips into unknown areas or tracks, where often there would be limited recent track condition info. It would be difficult to know if my vehicle was capable, if tracks were passable, and what mods or gear I would need to have to attempt.

In addition, track difficulty will be customised to the user based on vehicle type and mods, since a hard track for a stock standard Prado might be easy for a kitted up GQ.

Keen to get feedback on this app prior to release from the 4x4 community so we can add any other functionality you may think valuable.

Feel free to ask any questions.

Cheers
Red

[TimE]

Sort of Wikitracks?

[red1234]

Hi guys

I'm in the process of releasing a new app that will hopefully make 4wding and exploring the bush easier and safer. Its purpose is to provide up-to-date track information for popular tracks in oz, to allow better route planning and safer navigation. Users can see up-to-date track difficulty and conditions on any given day or week for all Australian tracks.

The app was inspired by issues I have personally had with planning trips into unknown areas or tracks, where often there would be limited recent track condition info. It would be difficult to know if my vehicle was capable, if tracks were passable, and what mods or gear I would need to have to attempt.

In addition, track difficulty will be customised to the user based on vehicle type and mods, since a hard track for a stock standard Prado might be easy for a kitted up GQ.

Keen to get feedback on this app prior to release from the 4x4 community so we can add any other functionality you may think valuable.

Feel free to ask any questions.

Cheers
Red

Yes sort of, (do you mean wikicamps?) but my understanding is wikicamps is for camping spots and other points of interest. In addition, it requires user input, whereas our offering would be provided for you and updated daily. Plus I don't think wikicamps provides personalised track difficulties/ratings.

[TimE]

Yes sort of, (do you mean wikicamps?) but my understanding is wikicamps is for camping spots and other points of interest. In addition, it requires user input, whereas our offering would be provided for you and updated daily. Plus I don't think wikicamps provides personalised track difficulties/ratings.

No, what I meant was a "crowd" updated, edited, added to app like Wikicamps but for tracks, hence call it Wikitracks? The advantage of "crowd" updates is there is the potential for 100s of updates per day/week, something a "headquarters" site would struggle to do in "real time" I think.

In any case I like the idea of up to date track info, with a rating for each track. Good luck with your endeavors.

[NissanGQ4.2]

Is there a demo app we can trial before the official release???

[red1234]

Is there a demo app we can trial before the official release???

Not yet, we're working on it!

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[red1234]

I like your idea, we could include crowdsourced input for sure. Certain track conditions would require this.

The core offering would however be automatic - this is the key value add. Agree it would be costly but we are working on proprietary method of overcoming this.

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[threedogs]

How does track condition be updated eg. Deer stalker is ok one day and impassable the next

[red1234]

How does track condition be updated eg. Deer stalker is ok one day and impassable the next

By analysing user route data in the cloud.

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[Mike02Ti]

I do like the idea of this. Would be cool if people could geotag photos of general obstacles or things along the track too.
Eg big rutted out hill so you knew what you were in for or old railway bridge that could be nice for a stop.

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