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- 13 September 2025
Help to make Hitchmap more open-data and enable more in-depth hitchhiking research by allowing to share your profile information.
The idea here is that profile information is not downloadable in a tabular format at the moment, allowing your profile information to be part of such a downloadable dataset research into hitchhiking research e.g. regarding gender, safety, age can be accelerated. And you allow other developers to build up on the data from hitchmap.com.
- 31 August 2025
Questions about how to hitchhike certain ferry connections are amongst the most popular in the Hitchwiki chat and on reddit. Thus a List of ferries that can be hitchhiked page was set up to gather up-to-date information about this matter. Have a look and do not hesitate to add your latest knowledge to it.
- 22 August 2025
Tramprennen started. You can follow some of its participants live on the Hitchhiking Map.
- 09 August 2025
News article: The lost art of hitchhiking: What we can still learn from travel's most radical mode?
- 09 July 2025
Paper published about the history of https://hitchmap.com/ and its predecessors. Alongside all hitchhiking rides ever collected by Hitchwiki and adjacent sites was published on Huggingface.
- 24 June 2025
The Baltics were chosen as the location for the 2025 Hitchgathering. All hitchhikers are welcome to join the scouting discussion on Signal/Matrix.
- 11 May 2025
A common format to tag official hitchhiking stops on OpenStreetMap was established. Alongside, all historic spots that used a different way to tag hitchhiking places were altered to adhere to the newly established standard. Now you can assume that this overpass query will give you all official hitchhiking spots that are mapped. Feel free to build upon this.
- 27 April 2025
The Atlantic article about hitchhiking and Hitchwiki.
- 05 February 2025
Article in Belgian media.
- 22 January 2025
🌍🌎🌏 HITCHMAP ACCOUNTS ARE BACK: Hitchmap Register.
Be quick to claim your account name if you have used the map already when it was on Hitchwiki or if you have submitted reviews using a nickname in the past. This will also enable you to see reviews of yourself or any other user like https://hitchmap.com/?user=bob#filters. As Hitchmap remains part of the Hitchwiki ecosystem you can also link your Hitchwiki account :)
- 7 November 2024
🌍🌎🌏 Quite a nice milestone for hitchmap you can now add the exact time of your ride to new spot entries and we got more in the pipeline - if you wanna speed things up you can have a look at github. This will benefit every hitchhiker using the map getting more precise information as well as hitchhiking research more broadly.
- 15 July 2024
Probably the first time a Member of the European Parliament hitchhiked from Brussels to Strassbourg
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