Am 18.01.2019 um 09:48 schrieb Marc Gemis:
So limiting it to named trails would be an option, however, the
tourist agencies seem to replace all such named walks with walking
node networks, so "trails" are now everywhere.
This means that you can start almost anywhere on a signposted walk.
Just take a look at
https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/#?map=9!50.9966!4.9715 and see how
fine mazed the orange networks are in Flanders and The Netherlands.
Note that not all network routes are mapped in Flanders yet and they
also rolled out a virtual network, which is no longer marked along the
way, but for which you need an app or GPS. So some holes will have to
be filled on the waymarkedtrails map.
So I wonder whether we should map all trial x road junctions as
trailheads or limit them to places with more facilities (just to be
clear, locally, in Flanders). I don't know.
I see your point. I had forgotten about node networks. While I haven't
really seen any for hiking yet personally, they are also growing here
for the cycling network. And of course they are mapped as route
relations. I'm not sure if I should reconsider my earlier suggestion to
put trailheads on anything in a route relation or not. While you clearly
also have to enter a node network somewhere I see them more as a general
navigation aid than a "trail". Whenever I use them I start from home or
wherever I am, find my way to the closest node in the general direction
and take it from there. I don't go to that node by car or bus first.
It's probable that I already enter the network somewhere inbetween two
nodes.
So I wouldn't consider every node as a trailhead. And i would not put a
trailhead on every intersection of a road and a network leg. If there
was a somehow designated or customary place, though, where you would
start hiking/cycling on the node network that could be marked as a
trailhead with the same rights as on a "classical trail".
Does that make sense?
Tobi
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