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Multiple trails and roads close together causing problems!

I'm sure many of you know this well, especially those who aim to get to the holy grail of 100%! It get's worse with poor satellite receiving of course. Here's my question: Does your recording device make a difference to this accuracy? I use the RWGPS on my iPhone 16 Pro and also Wandrer running in a browser as a reality check, and RWGPS draws the GPS data smoothly, whereas the browser running Wandrer is rough - sometimes jumping all over the place. However, when I upload my rides, often it has missed entire sections of these 'parallel' tracks. Is there any benefits to using something like a bike computer for example, due to better GPS radio accuracy? I do use the most frequent recording periods on my phone, and FWIW I use it because I can read road names more easily on that big screen! TIA, fellow OCD addicts!!

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u/Mister_Ce — 3 days ago

Explorer Achievements not for every Area?

We're heading to Svalbard Islands in a few days.

So of corse I checked the wandrer "circumstances" there.😂

I wonder why there are no areas for achievements especially for Longyearbyen and Ny-Ålesund, cause they are relativly big.

Svaldbald Island is 808,98km and there are only 4 achievements with round about 100km.

Can you explain why, Craig? 😅

Thanks in advance!

u/AlisHungerland — 5 days ago
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Should some turning lanes and slip lanes be excluded from Wandrer?

Example: https://imgur.com/a/8U78X7e

I think that some should be excluded when they're also part of the same major, named roadway. I always on the fence with the suggestion a few years ago to combine boulevarded roadways (such as my example here) into one road for Wandrer, but I do think North American middle turning lanes and slip lanes should not be included in Wandrer for either biking or walking - especially walking.

u/brigodon — 9 days ago
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Regional Parks & Trails

What are the parameters to have a park or trail count as an achievable area?

I see that most National and State Parks in the United States come up as distinct areas. Central Park in New York is a separate area as well. Should some city parks, regional parks, or regional trails should be included. How are the areas determined?

For Example:

Forest Preserves in the Chicago area

Metroparks in the Detroit area

Regional parks in Arizona

The Lakefront Trail in Chicago

The Fox River Trail west of Chicago

There are many more and I'd guess many around the world that are not designated in Wandrer.

Many of these Regional Parks contain more trails that some State Parks.

This is not a complaint, just trying to figure out what the deciding factors are.

Thanks

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u/Safe-Wave710 — 7 days ago

Streets disappeared after full processing - bike path related?

After the most recent update, tons of streets that have adjacent bike paths disappeared from the On Foot map.

An example intersection in Chicago, Augusta and Milwaukee Ave. The access tag for “foot” is “yes” on Augusta, so I can’t figure out why it isn’t mapping.

Honestly getting a little tired of updating and chasing bad OSM data or Wandrer rule changes, sort of feels like I’m losing the plot here

u/contyg — 8 days ago
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Question from a new user

Hi, I just found out about Wandrer's existence today and this really seems like the perfect thing for someone like me -- I have been obsessed with Pokémon Go for the last 10 years and love having completionist activities to work on while walking/biking around!

I saw that it's supposed to sync the last 50 activities on my Strava, however I'm only seeing 4 activities when I go to "Your Activities." And all 4 are showing that they are still processing despite the fact that it has been many hours. Is it usually slow like this, and maybe in a few hours/days it will show 50 activities and they will process fully? Or am I doing something wrong/do I have to go and do something myself for it to be successful?

Thanks!

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u/Naclstack — 11 days ago

Annoying Unridden line that doesn't want to be ridden

I've done everything I can think of to get this one little red line to go away.

-I've ridden the segment again and again

-I've used the editor to match the way

- area shows 100%, but the red line persists

; My OCD completionist nature (let's face it we're all a bit that way if we're on wandrer) won't let it go.....

can someone help? Thanks in advance

Wandrer ID :181814

https://preview.redd.it/ejaeryi6vwhh1.png?width=472&format=png&auto=webp&s=fda13cfdfb0fb4ebb298b486eddebbc98241cc20

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u/dmaurer20 — 13 days ago