[bpowah]

I'm excited to see where this goes. You are right about the competition. There is tons of information out there, but not many are wiki and none have the responsiveness or a clean modern design yours does.

Kudos on the "free and open" promise! I hate logins.

Critique: - I second the suggestion to encourage contributing to OSM. Most popular hikes will be in OSM already and adding them to hike.io could be as easy as selecting the route on the OSM layer. - can you use a USGS layer for US locations? see mapper.acme.com - Adding an entry should be easier. I selected the coords, but was still required to enter the state, country. I would like to simply add a few points on a map and have the elevation/gain calculated for me - driving directions? why a block of text? why not a link to google driving directions?

[zakn]

Awesome feedback. Especially the part about making the "adding an entry" part easier, it didn't dawn on me that some of that information is redundant.

The reason I've been writing driving directions in a wall of text is because in a lot of cases, google doesn't map all of the forest roads required to get to the trailhead. There are some hikes, like http://hike.io/hikes/mount-rose, which do and in that case I include the link in the Directions header. I thought it might be nice to also include the step by step directions in case you don't have an internet connection, but you're right, it feels extraneous.

And, I'm going to have to investigate OSM, you're the second suggest that.

[maxerickson]

Make sure to look around a bit for different OSM tile renderings, the .org default is a little dry for outdoor stuff. This one is nicer:

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-streets-terrain/

This site maybe doesn't have the greatest UI, but it works for exploring some of the data that is available:

http://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/en/?zoom=9&lat=40.44379&lo...

(If you click the "Routes" button in the lower right it pops up a box listing the routes near the current view)