Changes to the Wandrer Data Connections

9 December 2024 by Pearl in features, updates

Well, it’s been a busy month here at Wandrer HQ. In mid-November, Strava announced a change to their API terms. In the interest of stronger user privacy, they added a restriction that any third-party apps may only display a user’s Strava activity data to that specific user. If you missed it at the time, this announcement caused quite a stir on Wandrer forums (Reddit 1 2, Strava) and social media (a summary is available on Tech Radar). At that time, Strava reached out to Craig to discuss their new policies and what they specifically want us to change.

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Wandrer auf Deutsch, en español, en français, in italiano

10 October 2021 by Pearl in features, updates

Wandrer now supports multiple languages! Pearl recently finished improving our support for French and added in German, Spanish, and Italian. To update your Wandrer account to a different language, head to your “Settings” page and select the “Locale” dropdown. We don’t yet have 100% of all text on the site translated. Please let us know if you notice a translation that is confusing or inaccurate and we’ll try to fix any issues.

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Display a 5 km circle on your map

20 August 2021 by Pearl in features, updates

Craig recently added the option for our Australian friends to add a 5km circle on top of their Wandrer map in order to explore right up to the edge of allowable roads during lockdown. If you’ve ridden in Australia in the last month, then you should see a 5km button on the left-hand side of your screen. Click that button to activate!

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