Geotrail
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Geotrail is a Canadian online mapping company that promotes hiking and outdoor education through interactive online tools that help users plan their recreational experience.
, Ontario
, Canada
and was founded in October 2009.
In May 2010, the company launched its web-software with the Royal Botanical Gardens, promoting its 37 kilometre trail network. The first of its kind in Ontario, the program not only displays the trails on interactive maps, contains photos of points of interest on each path, and a search tool to plan a trip based on a number of criteria including length, time, difficulty, but outdoor education programming as well.
History
Geotrail is headquartered in HamiltonHamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...
, Ontario
Ontario
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, Canada
Canada
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and was founded in October 2009.
In May 2010, the company launched its web-software with the Royal Botanical Gardens, promoting its 37 kilometre trail network. The first of its kind in Ontario, the program not only displays the trails on interactive maps, contains photos of points of interest on each path, and a search tool to plan a trip based on a number of criteria including length, time, difficulty, but outdoor education programming as well.