[OSM-talk] Karlsruhe area (was Black Forest)

[Christoph Eckert]

Hi,

> Maybe the Karlsruhe area would be the best place, as there seem to be
> quite a few OSM people there already and it would be good to meet
> everyone.

there are some, but I don'T know if they are interested in hiking :) . 
Seems I should initiate a survey...

> What's the north end of the Black Forest like, scenically, by the
> way? Is it similar to the south? My memories of the Freiburg area
> were of forested mountains with steep sided valleys, and peaks at
> around 1000-1500 metres.

The same in the north, except that valleys aren't *that* steep sided and 
peaks aren't that high.
If you plan a holiday of one week, I'd also like to recommend to visit 
Strasbourg. A very nice town, 1h by car or train, and barely 
mapped :) .

> That's something I was trying to find out on the internet by the way.
> If you're into walking, it's hard enough finding a proprietary map of
> an area showing contours and paths, never mind a free map... hence
> there's an obvious opening for OSM there :-) I had the same problem a
> year or two ago when I was trying to find out walking maps of parts
> of Canada and the USA.

There are some pages describing hiking routes, some including GPS 
tracks. Most of them are available in german only, though. No prob, I 
can prepare the routes.

> What time of year would be best? I can do
>
> * late July (16th onwards)
> * all of August
> * late September (15th onwards)

I'll ask the other osm addicts first.

HTH,

ce