2024 wrap-up

18 February 2025 by Craig

Hi folks! A bit late to the game here, but I thought it would be nice to do a bit of reflection on 2024. 2024 saw a bunch of fun changes in Wandrer, highlights of which include:

  • A brand new map that looks better, is faster and nicer to navigate, fixed a lot of interface quirks with the previous maps, and also makes it a lot easier to add new features.
Old map

New map
  • Added the first routing features for Wandrer, with these rolling out more widely to upgraded users in February.
  • Added support for syncing activities from RideWithGPS and Garmin (Garmin is currently for upgraded folks only). More services coming!
  • 9,956,804 activities processed in 2024
  • 30,924,894 new miles / 49,768,792 new km covered in 2024
  • 30,707 new places added to Wandrer in 2024
  • At the beginning of 2024, Wandrers had been to every country but 2: Eritrea and Equatorial Guinea. Eritrea has now been visited, so there’s only one left! You have your marching orders.
  • 100,000 active Wandrers!
  • 5 OpenStreetMap map updates
  • Lots of nice stories about people going places they’ve never been before.
  • We have collectively traveled 26% of the entire planet, or 12187981 miles / 19614654 km!.

All of this would not be possible without your support, so thank you so much. Wandrer is such a fun weird thing, and I’m glad that yall like it enough to let me keep working on it.

Your end-of-year stats should be available on your dashboard as well, so keep an eye out for those!

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