Maps used on wildwalks are used with permission and come from different sources.

Water Colour Maps

  The beautiful maps used on the home page and general overview pages where designed and developed by the clever map architects at Stamen. The provide a range of mapping services worth checking them out.  These maps are rendered using OSM.org data.

Online Topographic base maps

  The detailed maps used on the walk and park pages are created by NSW LPI. The tiles have been kindly released under a creative commons licence and we are hosting a CDN mirror of the tiles to off set the load on on the tile server.

Wildwalks Printable Walk Maps
These maps have been created by wildwalks using a variety of data. Our own data has been collected for track and poi of interest information. Roads and many other tracks, trails and other data from the amazing OSM.org project. The terrain data is derived from best data from Nasa, Japan space agencies as well as other publicly available DEMS. Contours, hill shading and Most creeks are derived from this same DEM. The vegetation layer has been created by analyzing NASA data using Google Earth Engine. These map images are copyright wildwalks, but if you want to use them in a project give me a yell, happy to see if I can render something useful for you.
Maps are generated using the opensource Mapserver engine. The online dynamic GUI maps are created using our own hosted Cartodb server. Both amazing tools.

Wildwalks is an online Bushwalking Guide Book with the aim of helping more people get out and safely enjoy the many great bushwalks and camping opportunities in NSW.  It does not matter if you are new to bushwalking or experienced, there is something here for everyone.

Wildwalks is developed by small group of people who are passionate about the outdoors.  We want to encourage people to “get out there” and enjoy the great places on offer.

Our goal is build a massive database of bushwalking tracks from around Australia.  I am conscious we are a long way from there now, but over the next few years I hope to grow this site.

Learn more about our Vision and Values.

We are committed to supporting businesses and organisation with similar goals. Wildwalks just provides information, there are many other hard working people out there who build, maintain and support these tracks and campsites.

We currently get about 1300 unique people a day using this service, thanks for your encouragement.

I get many e-mails from people asking how to help out (thanks); here are a few idea.

A few FAQ’s

1) Should I still carry a traditional topographical Map?

YES. I recommend that you still have at least one set of maps that cover an area, the maps provided by Wildwalks cover just the walk, and are limited help in case of emergency change in plans.  Also some printers and paper do not handle the rugged outdoors as well as the maps you can buy.

2) Can I print the notes and maps?

YES. Use the PDF button or link to generate a nice printable version with a much better map what what is the webpage.

3) Can I print copies for my fellow walkers?

YES. I think that everyone in the walking group should have a copy, please print as many as you want.

4) Can I use the notes and maps for my School, Club or Commercial group.

YES. Again I think that every one should have a copy of the map at the very least, Please to not change or trim the notes to hide logo or any other information though.

5) What if I think something is wrong?

Please use the user feedback in each article to let us know how we can improve things, we really love feedback. We know the notes are not perfect, we try hard so please let us know how we can do better.

6) Can I suggest a walk to be included?

YES.  Our goal is to grow and build lots more walks.  I plan to add a “suggest / vote for a walk page” but until then e-mail me your thoughts.  If you want variations on existing walks, please also let me know, we can usually turn those around quickly.  I hope by the end of the year we will also have a very cool “reverse” this walk feature, so that if you want to do the walk the other way round, it will be easy (the map and the tracknotes will be changed as if it was meant to be like that).

7)  Can I download the walk to my GPS?

Not Yet.  We are working on this, We have the data and the technology, but there are a few issues with it at this stage. Firstly we have a problem with people stealing info from our website and putting it up on there own, and this just makes that to easy for them (this data costs us a lot of money to produce, I am happy for people to use it for free, but not to claim it as there own and have no plans to maintain it.) Secondly there are some social/safety issues on using GPS for bushwalks.  I am keen to address these issues and get this GPS data to you sooner then later.

8) Can I view the walks in Google Earth?

Not Yet.  For similar reasons to FAQ 7, but I hope to resolve this one sooner.  We are playing with this and just to tease you, it is pretty cool.  Once we release this you will be able to do virtual fly overs or all the walks, view the sat image and Topomaps, see the photos in the place they were taken and a few other cool things.

9) How can I search for walks on Wildwalks?

We have got a  Bushwalk search page for finding walks on the website.  It has an advanced search options as well.

10) Can I link to Wildwalks?

Yes, Please do.  Links to Wildwalks help more people find a useful bushwalking site, and it help us by bringing more people to our service.  When linking to wildwalks it would help us further if you also link descriptive keywords, such as bushwalking or hiking.  So if linking to the home page try something like Wildwalks an online  bushwalking guidebook  or if link to a specific walk or list of walks you may want to try something like Bushwalking tracks in Royal National Park .  Our URL’s are pretty stable so you should rarely have issues with broken links.

Thanks for your interest

Matt  🙂

Your Privacy

Wildwalks aims to comply with the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), which regulates the collection, storage, quality, use and disclosure of personal information.

Use and disclosure of personal information.

Information that in some way identifies you may be gathered when you use our website or send us an email.

Collection of information

Information collected from browsing When you view the Wildwalks website and app, we may collect the following information: • your IP (Internet protocol) address or host name eg. 123.123.123.12 or xxx.yyy.com.au • the date and time you visited the website • the pages or documents you download • the web browser, operating system, screen resolution, Internet settings you are using • the previous site you visited, if you reached our website by clicking on a link • whether you have previously visited our website (only if you accept Cookies).   Information collected from online forms When you submit a form on the Wildwalks website we collect information from it. This information may include personal and organisational details such as your full name, phone number, business name and ACN details, email address and street address. Clicking on the ‘submit’ button on any form acts as your consent for Wildwalks to collect the information you have provided. Before you submit this information we will take reasonable steps to inform you of: • where applicable, any law that requires the particular information to be collected • which fields are mandatory and which are optional. Information collected from email If you send us an email, we will record your email and email address for the purpose of responding to you.

Use and disclosure of information collected

Information collected from web browsing is used to identify patterns of usage of the Wildwalks website and app. This will help us improve the website and the services offered we offer. Information collected from forms and email will only be used for the purpose for which you have provided it. We will not use it for any other purpose, nor will we disclose it, unless with your consent or in other circumstances where such use or disclosure is permitted under the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998. Your personal information (including your email address) will not be automatically added to a mailing list, or sold or otherwise transferred to a third party. We take reasonable steps to protect information during transfer and storage. Physical measures, such as building and equipment security, are used in conjunction with digital technology, such as data encryption and firewalls, to minimise unauthorised access to information.

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The Wildwalks.com websites contain information, data, documents, pages and images (‘web content’) prepared by the staff and owners of Wildwalks.com. This web content is subject to copyright under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), and, except where noted otherwise, is owned by the owners of Wildwalks.com.

The material on this website is copyright ^© by Wildwalks except where otherwise indicated. You may download, store in cache, display, print and reproduce the material in unaltered form only (retaining this notice, or links to it where they appear) for your personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation. You may not deal with the material in a manner that might mislead or deceive any person.

Some ‘Copy Left’ content has been used on some pages, and where so has been noted and is freely available for re-distribution as mentioned in the terms on the pages.

Regardless of where the data is stored (either on wildwalks.com, google maps or other service) and regardless of the copyright attribution associated with the data you agree to not use any programmatic, automated or any API to collect or collate any wildwalks data.  Where data is shared under a share alike licence then you agree to provide a link back to the most relevant page (or the home page) of wildwalks.com in a prominent location. The link must allow prominent search engine to follow it and for users to easy click on it.

Wildwalks staff encourages the availability of information. Where Wildwalks.com is the owner you can distribute information from this website on the condition that you the information is shared in a whole and unaltered version, as it is presented on this website. Ensure the copyright notice ‘© www.wildwalks.com’ is included.  Commercial operators are welcome to use information from this website, under the same conditions, however the information cannot be on sold, and must be made freely available (with no charge).

Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, all other rights are reserved.

Generally we are happy to share information if we can see how it will befit the community both in the short and long term.

To request permission for use, please contact Matt@wildwalks.com

 If you intend to use Wildwalks web content on another website, this should be done via a direct link to this website to ensure that the latest version is always displayed.

 This permission does not extend to copyright in web content owned by others on this website or to web pages or other content linked from this website.

Use of Trademarks

As use of Wildwalks owned trademarks and logos often infers endorsement, these cannot be used without the express written permission from the owners of Wildwalks.com.

To request permission, please contact Matt@wildwalks.com