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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/5/2020 9:27 AM, Peter Elderson
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<div dir="ltr">Do you know trails with detached sections? We have
some in Nederland, on the islands. Doesn't fit in the proposed
role scheme, I think.
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data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Vr gr Peter Elderson</div>
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<p>See this section of the E10 in <span class="js-about-item-abstr">Czechia
( <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5465693">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5465693</a> ) -- there's no
connection between these three sections of trail, and I don't
know if there ever will be. I think the E* European
long-distance trails have a lot of these </span><span
class="js-about-item-abstr"><span class="js-about-item-abstr">discontiguous
</span>sections.</span></p>
<p><span class="js-about-item-abstr">In the USA I know of the North
Country Trail, which is very incompletely mapped in OSM (
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8808051">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8808051</a> ). Much of it is
made up of other trails. Unlike other long-distance trails, the
North Country Trail doesn't claim to be contiguous on a micro
level, and has hundreds of disjoined sections. It shares a lot
of physical trail with the Finger Lakes Trail in New York State,
but (by my understanding) in a conceptually different way: The
Finger Lakes Trail aims to be contiguous and will consider a
half mile (or much more in some cases) walk along a residential
road between two sections of wilderness to be part of the route.
The North Country Trail will include the sections of hiking
trail through both of the wilderness portions, but will not
include the road walk. When you step onto the road, you've left
the North Country Trail but you're still on the Finger Lakes
Trail. Once you go back into the woods, you're on both trails
again.<br>
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<p><span class="js-about-item-abstr">Jason<br>
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