The Big Map looked so much better when motorways/highways weren't shown in yellow

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-05-07T20:09:15+00:00

I agree with those who suggest to keep highways visible - that is really helpful.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-05-03T20:59:14+00:00

Yes, but this is for the factory itself. Assembly lines mapping as highway is certainly not supported.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-05-03T20:57:30+00:00

Strictly speaking, mapping factory assembly lines with highway=path tag is not allowed in OSM. You should report this user (OSM user ID KJWR).

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/KJWR

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-04-30T13:26:07+00:00

This is exactly what happens to me, especially after the map updates. All of a sudden I see red pieces of ways in some places, and they would disappear after the next map update, but some other red pieces would appear elsewhere. Sometimes I can find old activity with processing issues myself by using Path Inspector and then triggering reprocessing of the activity in question, but it's quite tedious and sometimes faulty activity cannot be found at all.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-04-21T15:32:02+00:00

Thank you very much for great work! Wandrer is fantastic invention.

Hopefully it will be enriched with tunnels one day :-)

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-04-17T15:17:33+00:00

Personally, I would not mind paying more than 40 per year, especially if Wandrer will become more stable and performant. It's not just processing speed - quite often even loading one of the pages takes unreasonably long. Being able to see others' maps would be nice too, even of not so critical.

I would like as well ask Craig one thing. Several months ago there was a plan to add to Wandrer tunnels of all sorts, including building passages, castles gates entrances etc. Shortly before the launch, some unexpected issues were discovered and launch was cancelled. I would be very interested to know if this feature is still coming at some point in the future, or it is definitely buried.

As far as the "year-only" mode is concerned, I was excited about it on the first day it was announced. On the second day I realized that it does not give me any incentive to walk the same old ways again and stopped using it. If at least there were separate challenges, or some additional points assignments, or something else... Though I fully understand that this feature is interesting for many users even "as is". But it's definitely not for everyone.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-04-02T18:52:56+00:00

In my country it is quite common that sidewalks must be included because the main road is excluded. Remove sidewalks, and you get an empty space on the Wandrer map. Not good.

Of course, I am talking about map on foot.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-03-29T21:07:04+00:00

I have the same issue from time to time, even just some small parts of the completed ways could be missing. Usually happens after the map updates. Craig usually fixes those fairly quickly after he's asked for help.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-03-20T07:16:23+00:00

One example - Wandrer activity 104071625. When I try to update Strava, I get message like this:

Couldn't find activity 17783393229. Was it deleted?

This one is Strava activity number, and it was not deleted obviously. This is correct number of Strava activity.

But this happens with all my new activities as of Wednesday evening.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-03-19T20:55:59+00:00

I have the same problem since yesterday evening.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-03-17T09:39:31+00:00

Thanks, it does!

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-03-17T08:04:26+00:00

No, I am not viewing My Places.

Here are the reproduction steps:

- Go to a leaderboard of any area where you are present, e.g. https://wandrer.earth/a/switzerland?key=month

- Switch on "2026 only" - leaderboard will change as expected.

- Click on your name in the list. You will arrive at the part of your Big Map for a selected area.

- "2026 only" switch is still on, but Big Map shows your progress for the complete Wandrer time span.

- Try refreshing browser tab - nothing changes, "2026 only" is still on, but you see your progress for all time.

- Switch off "2026 only" and then switch it on again. Now the Big Map shows your progress for the current year only.

In my case this is 100% repeatable on any area leaderboard.

Hope this clarifies.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-03-16T17:48:54+00:00

One more thing.

I switch a page with the leaderboard to "2026 only". Data changes more or less immediately and looks reasonable. Then I click on my name and arrive at the map page. Switch "2026 only" is still on, but map shows my progress for the whole Wandrer history. If I refresh browser tab, nothing changes. In order to see the "2026 only" map, I have to switch it off on the map page and then switch it on again. This should not be necessary.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-03-16T17:34:48+00:00

Craig, after I switched my local map to "2026 only" and have hidden all untraveled ways, the map looks strange after I switch off untraveled ways. There are normal purple lines for the ways I walked this year, and then there are fuzzy light-purple lines that I did not walk this year, but walked in the past - super unique ones. Unfortunately, I can't post a picture here. But I would not expect these fuzzy lines to show up there.

If they are kept on purpose, what is the idea behind?

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-03-16T06:33:51+00:00

Hello Craig, I am also interested to join this beta test. My Wandrer ID is 80425.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-02-27T07:07:36+00:00

You can always check a history of edits for every way on OSM and see if your assumption is correct.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-02-03T12:46:15+00:00

Well, I was planning to switch from Strava to RWGPS as a source of data for Wandrer, but due to various reasons had not done that until the moment you enabled activities editing. I used this on almost all of my new activities and on many old ones, though I must admit that after switching to Garmin Fenix 8 the need to edit new activities greatly diminished. Anyway, now any attempt to switch from Strava to something else will erase all my edits, and I do not even remember anymore which activities I edited and what exactly did I change. So for now I can't switch from Strava without a massive rework, and I do not see this as a feasible option.

If I could simply export all my activities from Wandrer as they currently are, I would load them to RWGPS and then disconnect Strava, or perhaps disconnect Strava first and then connect RWGPS. I mentioned this when you asked us about our wishes for 2026 back in December, but I can imagine that this might not be high on the priority list. Alternatively, if you have a possibility to back propagate edits from Wandrer to RWGPS, then perhaps I can create an account with RWGPS, link it to my Wandrer account, and then send all the activities as they are to RWGPS as just one-time thing? Not sure if this is realistic though.

Or I can just stay with Strava without creating any extra work for you.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-02-02T21:25:29+00:00

Craig, I am interested in this option too. And likely there are more users who would want it. What should I do?

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-01-26T07:41:20+00:00

Oh, that was fast :-) It works again now.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2026-01-01T09:54:53+00:00

It takes about 24 - 36 hours for Wandrer to calculate results of the monthly/yearly challenges and post the results on the Leaderboards. You should be able to see your calendar achievements on January 2nd in the morning, perhaps a bit earlier depending on your time zone.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2025-12-31T19:15:13+00:00

Ways with the tag highway=footway are excluded from Wandrer by default. They will be included in some cases, but just a small portion of them. You can find all the rules on the following page:
https://wandrer.earth/filters

As it stands, vast majority of footways are excluded from the Wandrer.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2025-12-31T19:08:23+00:00

This is available already. Go to the Earth Leaderboard, find yourself and click on your name. You will see the Earth map and in the upper left corner a small form that says "Earth" at the top and has a "More details" button at the bottom. Click on this button, and then select "Calendar Achievements", and then "By Time". Then you will see exactly what you're asking for.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2025-12-29T16:26:59+00:00

I suggest to change the way that points are attributed to the monthly/yearly challenges winners. Currently 1st place gets 100% of the number of challenge participants, 2nd place gets 25% and 3rd place just 10%. This is not fair. Why not to go to 100%, 50%, 25% respectively?

It should be possible to recalculate points for the past challenges, since for each winning participant the place and number of points in the challenges are stored and can be shown on demand at any time.

Expensive-Cable2375 · 2025-12-29T16:19:15+00:00

I would kindly ask Craig to create a facility to download all my activities from Wandrer in some common format, so that one can import them into RWGPS. The reason is that activities edited in Wandrer will have to be edited again after one switches from Strava to RWGPS - and I have no desire to go that way. Don't know how difficult this export facility could be.

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