On 1/11/19 2:43 AM, Peter Elderson wrote:
This covers all trailheads mapped worldwide so far, and excludes
locations where a trail just crosses a road.
Here we go again.
Some of the trailheads I've used are exactly that. One of those that I
can recall in particular is an important trailhead. If you start away
from it, it will be 60 km before you reach the next road that a car can
drive on, and another 25 to reach a town where you can get supplies or
assistance. If I recall correctly (it's about three years since I was up
that way) all there is at the trailhead is a guidepost (there's a
register book, but it's in the woods maybe 400 m to discourage
vandalism). If you want to park a car, you do that at a county
maintenance garage that's about half a km away on the highway.
And yes, this *is* a customary and designated place for starting/ending
a trip It's a 220 km trail, so most hikers don't do it in one shot. It's
a wilderness trail, so it simply doesn't have a lot of facilities other
than at its endpoints. A trailhead on that trail is simply any place
with highway access - and I can count them on my fingers, including a
couple that have access trails that aren't the main trail (maybe about a
5 km trip to get to the road from the main trail) and another couple
that cross 4WD-only roads.
There's no government agency designating the trailheads. The trail is
maintained by a hiking club, with the cooperation of the state
Department of Environmental Conservation. (The maintenance is haphazard,
as you'd expect on a trail that remote. That's part of the experience.)
The trailheads, however, are listed in guidebooks, and appear in a
shapefile that I get from the DEC that describes points of interest on
state-owned land. (I do *not* import that file because of data quality
issues.)
Despite your repeated denials, you're continuing to try to invent a set
of definitions that, at least in NL, will encompass all TOPs and nothing
else. If that's your aim, then invent a tag for TOP and use it,
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