I’ve submitted Trail assistant to the GPT store. As it has been trained on more data it has continued to surprise me on how helpful it can be. A few specific improvements are below.
GPT store: As mentioned it is the the GPT store this should give it a lot more visibiity and usage to help it improve. It is in the store alongside AllTrails (wah-wah) and a few other similar ones, interestingly Trail Assistant is the top result for most hiking related terms.
MOAR DATA: I have been training Trail Assistant on publicly accessible data sets around campsites and hiking trails. It should be more reliable to find sites in Federal and State lands. I’ve also been training it on trail info specifically longer through hiking trails (It’ SHT data is pretty comprehensive)
Accessibility: Trails Assistant is now trained to look for accessible trails (it will ask you to help it with what accessible means to you). It is still early days on this one, but there is a lot to do in this space to help more people get outside. Data sources are harder to come by though.
All in all the tool continues to improve steadily. I used it to plan a Sunshine Coast backpacking trip and the specific data on distances and sites was very helpful to start planning.
