Ultreia 3.0
After this year's #Camino walks, we finally get to go back to making deep changes to the app. #CaminoNow is now #Ultreia (insert long story about legal threats and how much of an insane asshole assembly the "Camino App" world is here). Ultreia should be available in very early 2026, with a few super cool additions:
- Leaf & Shell Vegan and Vegetarian Camino Planning
- 100% Community, 100% good Netizen
- Better a11y design, [more...]
Bullhorn: https://mikka.is/entry/ultreia-30/
#caminoNow is to other Camino Apps, what (to not stretch it too far, since we contribute heavily to its database) OpenStreetMap is to Google Maps. We're trying to be the open, free, and inclusive alternative.
So we use gender-inclusive language. Pilger:in for German, hospitaler@ oder peregrin@ for Spanish. We didn't think twice about it. Others, apparently, did. And, would you know it, it's a "competitor" who's stoking the flames of an incensed mini-minority about "gender gaga".
A whole week no updates from the #caminofrances. As I wrote before, my main objective in walking the Francés (again) is to update as many accommodations in the #caminoNow App and in #openstreetmap as I can.
102 down, 1034 to go :)
Great sunrises and hot days make the decision to start at 4:30am easy. I usually am in the next town to talk to albergues before breakfast, get 2, 3 more towns in, and then flee from the sun into a café until the albergues reopen.
Arrived in Burgos today, tomorrow we climb up into the high desert, the Meseta, and walk the never ending fields…
Mikka, MD