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
- 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
See also Hiking Map.
Tagging walking and hiking Route Networks
Is it worth adopting the same idea as for cycling, i.e. three levels of hierarchy - national, regional, and local.
It is often better to use relations to tag long distance walking and hiking routes rather than tags. See the tagging table below.
Tagging walking Node Networks
Belgium and the Netherlands have a number of these, for example in the south of the Netherlands.
Nodes are tagged with rwn_ref=number. Routes between nodes are tagged using relations.
Example rendering: OpenWandelKaart, relation: 
50017 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx ).
For more information, see:
Relations
It is preferred to tag long distance walking and hiking routes using relations instead of tagging the ways. An example long distance walking or hiking route relation could have the following tags:
| Tag | Comment |
|---|---|
| type=route | |
| route=foot, route=hiking | (in Netherlands also route=walking): |
| network=iwn/nwn/rwn/lwn | Specify the network as an international route, a national route, a regional route, or a local route. |
| ref=number | (optional) |
| symbol=trail markings | Description of trail markings (optional, but required for some renderings) |
| colour=* | (optional) Colour code noted in hex triplet format. Example: "#008080" for teal colour |
| distance=number | (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") |
| name=* | (optional) The name of the route e.g. Pennine Way |
| description=* | (optional) a short description |
| state=proposed | (optional) Routes are sometimes not official routes pending some negotiation or development. Comment Mikh43: 'state' may not be ideal - many routes are created and promoted by regional or local authorities, or created by user groups and then adopted and promoted by authorities. Unsure about this tag. |
| operator=* | (optional) The route is operated/maintained by this authority/organisation etc. |
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)
Germany
See DE:Wanderweg, WikiProject Germany/Wanderwege-Netz and OSMC Reit- und Wanderkarte.
Hungary
See WikiProject Hungary/Turistaút.
Ireland
Netherlands
WikiProject Nederland Wandelroutes (In dutch).
New Zealand
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.
