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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/9/2019 3:43 AM, Peter Elderson
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<div>I have walked many "Camino" sections in Italy. The
"checkpoints" are just stamps, you can get them at many
shops, hotels, restaurants, tourist info points and the like
on the way. They will stamp anything for anyone who asks.
There is no register, nothing is checked. I would not call
them checkpoints and I would certainly not attempt to map
them. In Nederland, I don't know about shops, hotels and
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<div>On the other hand, there are special places like convents
and some churches where pilgrims can stay the night and eat
very cheap or free. They would check and maybe register the
pilgrim's passport, I guess. These points would merit
rendering and routing, I think. I don't know if it helps to
tie it to a particular route though. It's a POI passed by
one or more routes. The map can show it, routers can use it
and it can be exported in a gpx or kml.</div>
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<div>It's one of those things I would not map unless I can be
reasonably sure it will be maintained and used for actual
rendering, routing and/or export.</div>
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<p>Haven't hiked any bits of the Camino myself, so my impressions
are secondhand, but I was told some places -- I think the second
type you mention, the convents etc -- are required checkpoints for
official completion of the route. And to any other passers-by,
they're simply a convent, an inn, whatever amenity they actually
are (and of course should be mapped as such.)<br>
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<p>Regardless of whether this is a correct description of the way
checkpoints function on the Camino de Santiago, it's an
illustration of how a checkpoint COULD relate to a particular
route but not to another that shares the same way. So if (big if)
we want hiking route relations to support non-highway members,
this is something to consider.<br>
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<p>J<br>
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