On 12/9/2019 3:43 AM, Peter Elderson wrote:
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 restaurants. 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. 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.
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.) 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. J
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