[Talk-it-piemonte] Progetto mappatura sentieri

[Kay F. Jahnke]

On 16.11.2012 19:37, solitone wrote:
> Yes, thanks Kay, I did link that resource on the new page I created, Piemonte/Sentieri.

Ooops... you did indeed! I should have had a closer look at your page 
before posting.

>
> Very bad interface indeed, but helpful. The only thing is, I tried and looked for some paths in my area, but I didn't find the CAI path number. They don't use CAI IDs, do they?

I don't think so. But I think they cooperate with the CAI to verify the 
trails - I just can't remember where I read this. I suspect the CAI has 
lots of interesting data as well, but so far I haven't found a good 
access to the CAI's data, which is probably because my italian isn't 
good enough to do the research properly. I ended up with the impression 
that it's all with the local sections, and if you want to get hold of 
the data you have to do it section by section, and you won't usually get 
data in a format like gpx.

I was initially pointed to http://sentieri.ipla.org/ by Mayeul when he 
did research on behalf of his Via Alpina Mapping Party project, but 
after browsing the data for a while I became frustrated because I could 
not actually download any of the tracks. It was yet another one of these 
'you can print your own map for this trail' offers, but I would have 
been more interested in taking the lot and make it into a layer in my 
GIS. Let's hope they open the data soon (if they haven't done so 
already, I didn't investigate for a while), so we can put them on a 
'proper' map and compare them with track data. I asked them, and they 
said they would open the data eventually (like all the other data they 
have), but they would prioritize which data they opened first. Maybe if 
there is more demand they'll do it more quickly...

Kay