What SPOTLAND does

Spotland.fr is the public-facing web platform of the French non-profit Association rollerenligne.com, headquartered in Guibeville, France. Founded in 2010, the platform functions as a community directory cataloging sports venues — primarily skateparks, pumptracks, roller courses, and BMX/scooter spots — with approximately 7,000 entries at its prior peak. Coverage spans all French departments and extends internationally to Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. Each spot listing carries structured metadata: geographic coordinates, surface type, amenities, equipment specifications, photos, and opening status, organized into a hierarchical, region-based taxonomy accessible through the website and RSS feed.

The product is a manually curated, content-driven web directory built on a standard CMS stack, with no native mobile app, no public APIs or SDKs, and no disclosed integrations. Distribution is entirely self-serve via spotland.fr, supported by a content-marketing layer consisting of blog posts profiling new and renovated spots, organic social accounts on Facebook (facebook.com/placetoride) and Instagram (instagram.com/rollerenligne/), and an RSS feed. A 2024 site redesign is in progress with stated intent to restore the full 7,000-spot database.

The organization is structured as a non-profit association rather than a commercial entity. It employs 8 people, generates no disclosed revenue, and charges users nothing for access — there is no pricing model, no advertising layer, and no funding rounds on record. Strategic partnerships exist with REL Bleu (rollerenligne.com, the parent association) and Clic N Roll, situating Spotland within a small cluster of French wheeled-sports community resources. No external investors, parent company, subsidiaries, M&A activity, leadership changes, or regulatory actions are disclosed.

Name

SPOTLAND

Legal name

Association rollerenligne.com

Website

https://spotland.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Spotland is a French non-profit association that operates a free online directory cataloging approximately 7,000 roller skating, skateboarding, BMX, and scooter venues across France and worldwide for individual wheeled-sports practitioners.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sports Directory Platform

akta.pro primary industry

POI, Local Listings & Business Directory Platforms (BPAMANAD)

Keywords

• Skatepark directory
• Roller sports venues
• BMX track database
• Action sports spots
• Wheels sports platform

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Spotland.fr is a free online directory and community resource that catalogs outdoor practice locations (spots) for roller skating, skateboarding, BMX, and scooter riding. The platform provides detailed venue listings with photos, location coordinates, surface specifications, amenities, and practice types, covering France (by department and region) as well as Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. The previous database contained approximately 7,000 spot entries, and the site is being rebuilt with plans to restore this content.

Product overview

SPOTLAND is a spot directory platform offering a comprehensive database of outdoor action sports venues. The core product is the Spotland.fr web platform, which catalogs and documents roller, skateboard, BMX, and scooter spots across France and worldwide. The platform is undergoing a redesign (refonte) and previously contained approximately 7,000 venue entries in its database. Users can browse spots by geographic region (France with all departments, European countries, North America, South America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania) and view detailed information including location coordinates, photos, equipment specifications, surface types, and opening status.

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Products and services

• Spotland.fr Spot Directory A comprehensive online directory of outdoor action sports venues covering roller skating, skateboarding, BMX, and scooter riding locations. Users can browse spots by geographic region (French departments, European countries, and continents worldwide), view detailed profiles with photos, location coordinates, surface types, amenities, and practice information. The platform previously contained approximately 7,000 spot entries and is currently being rebuilt with restored data.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• REL Bleu (Roller en Ligne)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerREL Bleu (rollerenligne.com) is a partner organization - Spotland is described as 'Un site de l'association rollerenligne.com' (A site from the rollerenligne.com association), indicating a close organizational relationship. The parent association appears to be dedicated to roller sports community and advocacy.
• Clic N RollminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerClic N Roll (clic-n-roll.com) is listed as a partner on Spotland's homepage, suggesting a collaborative relationship in the wheeled sports community ecosystem.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Google Maps: Google Maps is the dominant general-purpose POI and mapping platform; it catalogs skateparks and BMX tracks as generic points of interest and competes with Spotland at the entry point for wheeled-sports venue discovery, though without Spotland's sport-specific metadata.
• Yelp: Yelp is a broad POI and local-business directory platform where users discover and review local venues, including skateparks and roller rinks; it overlaps with Spotland as a community-contributed venue discovery platform but is not specialized for wheeled sports.
• Strava: Strava is a major activity-tracking and social platform used by wheeled-sports athletes and increasingly includes venue/segment data for skating and cycling; comparable to Spotland as a community surface where athletes log and discover wheeled-sports activity, though it is not a dedicated venue directory.
• Foursquare: Foursquare operates a global POI platform and city guide that surfaces sports and recreation venues; comparable to Spotland as a venue-discovery platform but with a generalist focus rather than wheeled-sports specialization.

Direct peers

• SkateSpots: SkateSpots is a community-driven online directory of skateboarding spots worldwide, with user-submitted locations and photos — directly comparable to Spotland in scope and purpose, although Spotland extends beyond skateboarding to roller, BMX, and scooter.

Emerging players

• Wikiloc: Wikiloc is a community-based outdoor-locations platform with user-contributed trails, points of interest, and GPS tracks worldwide; comparable to Spotland in its international community-contributed POI model, though weighted toward hiking and outdoor trails rather than wheeled-sports venues.
• AllTrails: AllTrails is a community-driven directory of outdoor recreation locations with rich per-trail metadata and reviews; it is comparable in product structure to Spotland (curated outdoor POI database with community contribution) but focuses on hiking/trail use cases.

Others

• OpenStreetMap: OpenStreetMap is an open, community-editable mapping platform that underlies many niche map products; comparable to Spotland as a community-contributed geospatial data infrastructure where specialized venues such as skateparks can be tagged, and a likely upstream source for Spotland-style POI data.

Market position

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/placetoride
• Instagraminstagram.com/rollerenligne
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/spotland

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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