Walking Routes
Walking routes are named or numbered or otherwise signed routes, which may go along roads or trails or combinations of these. See also Hiking.
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Rendered Walking and Hiking Maps
- 4UMaps.eu Topographic outdoor map for hiking and mountainbiking
- Hiking and bridle map covering Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- Hiking marked trails map of Czech Republic
- Freemap, UK walking map with contours
- Map of marked hiking trails around the world
- Hike & Bike Map
See also Hiking Map.
Tagging walking and hiking Route Networks
A route is a customary or regular line of travel, often pre-determined and publicised. It consist of paths taken repeatedly by various people.
To tag a hiking route you create a relation with the approbiate tags and add all elements (points and ways) of the hiking route to this relation.
See also Relation:route.
Tags of the relation
| Key | Value | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| type | route | indicates this Relation represents a route |
| route=* | hiking | Instead of the tag route=hiking there is less frequently also used route=foot. Don't use route=pilgrimage (almost non-existent) but add pilgrimage=yes to a hiking-route. |
| name=* | a name | The route is known by this name (e.g. "Westweg") |
| ref=* | a reference | The route is known by this reference (e.g. "E1") |
| network=* | iwn nwn rwn lwn |
International walking network: long distance paths that cross several countries National walking network: long distance paths Regional walking network: used for walking routes that cross regions Local walking network: used for small local walking routes |
| operator=* | operator name | The route is operated by this authority/company etc. e.g. "Schwarzwaldverein", "Alpenverein" |
| state=* | proposed / alternate / temporary | Sometimes routes may not be permanent or may be in a proposed state. |
| symbol=* | symbol description | Describes the symbol that is used to mark the way along the route, e.g., "Red cross on white ground" for the "Frankenweg" in Franconia, Germany |
| colour=* | a hex triplet | (optional) Colour code noted in hex triplet format. Especially useful for public transport routes. Example: "#008080" for teal colour |
| description=* | a short description | What is special about this route |
| distance=* | distance | (optional) The distance covered by this route, if known. For information of users and automatic evaluation e.g. of completeness. Given including a unit and with a dot for decimals. (e.g. "12.5km") |
| ascent=* | ascent | (optional) The ascent covered by a route in meters. If a route has start and end point at different altitude use descent too |
| descent=* | descent | (optional) The descent covered by a route in meters. Use it only if it differs from the ascent (different altitude at start/endpoint of a route). |
| roundtrip=* | yes/no | (optional) Use roundtrip=no to indicate that a route goes from A to B and instead of being circular (roundtrip=yes). |
| osmc:symbol=* | * | (optional) Some renderer uses the osmc:symbol=* to indicate a route on the map. |
Hiking routes are extensively mapped with route relations, and the Lonvia map will render route relations following this proposal and the osmc:symbol=*
Hiking routes are rendered for selected areas in Germany in a Hiking and Trail riding map (german). The tags required for rendering are:
- type=route
- route=hiking
- name=* Meaningful route name suitable for identifying this route.
- symbol=* Verbal description of the route marker symbols.
- osmc:symbol=* Coded description of the route marker symbols.
Usage
Since the tagging is generic, it is up to each country to decide how to map the hiking networks that exist in their country onto the hierarchy of national/regional/local. For countries with no specific local/regional/national "walking network", it may be helpful to consider whether different trails are managed or funded by government bodies at different levels.
Austria
Australia
Europe
Belgium
Czech
Croatia
Denmark
France
In France we have a well established naming system for hiking route throughout the country (called the GR X for Grande Randonnee=Long Hiking), however there has been a long discussion on talk-fr about the fact that the short names GR, PR with appropriate colored marked on the ground (white and red) and also the shape they have is under a restricted copyright.
Terms are still unclear and asking the Fédération Francaise de la Randonnée Pédestre for permission is on it's way, but we doubt it will succeed. In the meantime, tagging those hiking routes is discouraged as it is breaking the CC licence.
Other idea are defining ourself some sort of world wide numbered OHT (Open Hiking Trails ;-) ) Sletuffe 13:33, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
For "GR 5" [(c) FFRP ??!] or GTA, problem can be solved by using "Via Alpina", as specifically authorised by the Via Alpina (which, incidentally, made a lot of work with respect to GR 5), see: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Authorisation_ViaAlpina_OSM_accomodation.png Mayeul 11:56, 3 June 2012 (BST)
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
- WikiProject_Italy/Sentieri (in Italian)
Netherlands
- WikiProject Nederland Wandelroutes (in Dutch).
New Zealand
Poland
- WikiProject Poland/Szlaki (in Polish)
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Turkey
- Saint Paul's Trail (Aziz Paul Yolu)
- Lycian Way (Likya yolu)
- Phrygian Way (projected) (Frig Yürüyüş Yolu)
United Kingdom
United States
- United States Long Distance Trails.
- The standard OSM tagging (highway=footway or highway=path) is used commonly in US.
