Tag: Walking routes

• Pilgrim roads: there is more of the Way of St James in Germany than in Spain

  

  I measured every waymarked pilgrim route in OpenStreetMap without counting any stretch twice: 77,804 km. 41,674 km lead to Santiago, and Germany has 14,814 km of them against Spain’s 9,922.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Europe, medieval, OpenStreetMap, Present day, religion, Walking routes, Wikidata

• The footpath capital of Britain

  

  Which part of Britain has the most public footpaths per square mile? From the councils’ own data: Rossendale, with 7.7 miles of right of way per square mile, and the South Pennine mill towns fill the top ten. Powys has the most per person; Harrow the fewest of anywhere with a definitive map.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, England, landscape, OpenStreetMap, Present day, Remoteness and access, Wales, Walking routes