About
The story behind Trek View.
Hi! My name's Dave.
In 2019 I took a GoPro Fusion 360-degree camera and started filming some of my hikes.
Hikes turned into mountain bike trails.
Bike trails into ski runs.
Ski runs into scuba dives.
From the top of Africa to the top of Europe.
The remote Scottish Highlands.
Rivers, Coastlines... and many thousands more kilometers of adventures.
My images quickly attracted millions of views in Street View. Viewers asked me how they could do the same, so I showed them.
And so Trek View became a thing.
Looking at the numbers, I realised there was a huge interest for using street-level imagery to map exploration of the natural world -- like Street View, but for adventures.
Imagine being able to filter the imagery by altitude, elevation changes, terrain, distance, how they were taken (hike, ski, bike, etc.).
This is exactly what I am currently working on. Read the full blueprint of what is in my mind here.
My aim is to keep as much of this project freely available via how-to guides on our blog and keeping much of the code developed open-source on GitHub.
I hope you find the content here useful, and cannot wait to see your imagery on the map!
-dave