DE
Schneespur
The German brand, with vocabulary geared to German legal context (Verkehrssicherungspflicht, DSGVO).
About
A small project, an honest scope
Wintertrace is a private open-source project. No company, no investors, no SaaS platform. One piece of software that runs on the operator's hosting and does one job — documenting winter service operations.
Why this exists
Winter service is real work done in real conditions — early mornings, storms, narrow streets, anxious property managers. The documentation burden that comes with it is just as real: paper logs that fade, spreadsheets that nobody can find weeks later, photographs lost in group chats, and weather data that no one remembers to capture in time.
Most software available to small operators is built for the wrong shape of business. It assumes a fleet, a dispatcher, and an IT budget. It charges per seat. It puts the data in someone else's cloud. None of that fits a one-truck contractor or a property maintenance business with three drivers.
Wintertrace is the deliberate opposite: small, focused, self-hosted, and free.
Two brands, one software
Schneespur (German) and Wintertrace (international) are language and brand frontends of the same project.
EN
Wintertrace
The international brand, with broader compliance vocabulary suited to multiple jurisdictions.
wintertrace.com (this site)
Wintertrace is not a translation of Schneespur — both brands have their own tonality, examples, and SEO strategy. The software underneath is identical.
Operating principles
What this project will and will not do.
Open source by default
Released under GNU AGPLv3. Source code, roadmap, and changelog are public. No closed-source modules are required to run the core.
Self-hosting by default
Designed for standard PHP and MySQL hosting. No vendor cloud is involved in any required code path. Managed hosting could be offered later as an optional service.
No telemetry
The software does not phone home. No analytics library is bundled. The only outbound calls are optional update checks and weather provider requests.
No artificial limits
No per-seat pricing, no driver caps, no customer caps. The software does not push you toward a premium plan.
No invented features
If a feature is not in the software, the website does not pretend it is. Planned items are clearly marked as such.
No legal guarantees
Wintertrace provides documentation support. It does not certify, approve, or guarantee anything legally. The compliance page makes this explicit.
Operator and legal details
Full operator information — name, address, phone — is listed on the imprint page in line with German telemedia law.