OpenStreetMap
I haven't used it much, but I believe OpenStreetMap provides a nicer interface and a more powerful API for documenting trails and other sort of things that this website documents. Has anybody experimented with that as a way of describing the trails in NZ?
I think overpass-turbo is a pretty good way of extracting data from OSM programmatically, here is an example:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/?Q=%3Cosm-script%20output%3D%22json%22%3E%0A%20%20%3Cquery%20type%3D%22relation%22%20into%3D%22hr%22%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%3Chas-kv%20k%3D%22route%22%20v%3D%22hiking%22%2F%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%3Chas-kv%20k%3D%22name%3Ade%22%20v%3D%22Meraner%20H%C3%B6henweg%22%2F%3E%0A%20%20%3C%2Fquery%3E%0A%20%20%3Cunion%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%3Citem%20set%3D%22hr%22%2F%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%3Crecurse%20from%3D%22hr%22%20type%3D%22relation-way%22%20into%3D%22hrp%22%2F%3E%0A%20%20%20%20%3Crecurse%20from%3D%22hr%22%20type%3D%22relation-node%22%2F%3E%0A%20%20%3C%2Funion%3E%0A%20%20%3Cprint%20mode%3D%22body%22%20order%3D%22quadtile%22%2F%3E%0A%20%20%3Crecurse%20from%3D%22hrp%22%20type%3D%22way-node%22%2F%3E%0A%20%20%3Cprint%20mode%3D%22skeleton%22%20order%3D%22quadtile%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fosm-script%3E&C=46.73892;11.07697;12
It does show NZ tramping tracks but in an over simplified street map manner. I think I will keep to the topo maps
Ditto. Topo for me
I think topology data can be integrated fairly easily. This is an example of a map style that has contour lines and hill shading:
http://opencyclemap.org/?zoom=14&lat=-36.36539&lon=174.12669&layers=000B0
I don't think OSM itself has topographical data. But the software allows you to style the maps with data incorporated from other sources, such as the SRTM (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SRTM).
So OSM can be extended a fair ways. But, I don't know if it's quite what you're looking for.
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