Long distance hiking trails project

The OpenStreetMap Long distance hiking trails project helps mappers and communities to map signed (waymarked) iwn and nwn hiking routes.

The ultimate goal is to catch them all, together.

The basis of this project is this conversation. At the start (2023) the focus is on a practical pilot of international co-operation: Complete and check the European iwn route E1. The project will be developed around the experiences in this start-up pilot project.

This page is the place where participants can document overall information on progress, tooling, contact, and hopefully consensus about how to do things. Discussions, questions and ideas: on the forum please, so everybody can join in, even without wiki skills. And if you need help with mapping a new trail, we can help. Let it know on the forum as well.

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Pilot Project

Our first project will focus on the European Long Distance Path 1: European long distance path E1. There is a separate wiki page and most of it seems mapped.

Current Projects (very incomplete)

Most mapping is done through the country specific groups. Some projects have been set up specifically for long distance trails. Here we will give an overview of the different projects

Africa

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Asia

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Nepal: seems to be some willingness to map more trails, but no project yet. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Nepal and https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Great_Himalaya_Trail

Europe

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There is/was an overarching project for long distance paths in Europe: Europe/Long-distance paths

Way of Saint James (Camino de Santiago): Camino de Santiago

Trans Caucasian Trail: No specific project, but they use OSM actively.

North America

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USA: United States/Long distance trails

South America

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Greater Patagonia Trail: No project

Inca Trail: No Project

Oceania

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Tools

Here we will create a list of tools that can be used to improve the networks.

• Relation Analyzer http://ra.osmsurround.org/index

Possible future projects

Would be interesting to have a tool where hikers can easily report errors in the OSM route. Something like this: https://www.meldpuntroutes.nl/ (Dutch).

Applications

A limited list that show the long distance trails

• Waymarkedtrails

• https://www.longdistancepaths.eu/en/