A frustrating aspect of maintaining hiking routes on #OpenStreetMap: hiking organisations seem to be especially unaware of the maxim that "Cool URLs don't change".
At some point the Andalusian outdoor sports federation changed its website from fedamon.com to fadmes.es, without redirects. Updating an OSM link to trail info requires searching the new website and hoping it still has the same name or reference. Some PDF trail descriptions seem to have been completely erased from history.
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Something similar happened in Ireland, the other place I sometimes map trails in OSM. Not so long ago, information about outdoor trails in Ireland was conveniently gathered at irishtrails.ie - about the coolest possible URL for the subject matter. And they threw that away!
Now that information is buried several layers deep in the hierarchy of sportireland.ie. - you'd hardly notice it on the home page. To be fair, at least they did set up redirects at the level of individual trail pages.
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@alan yes I've seen that both in IRL and ES. Arrive at trail head or cross a trail with markers. Oh, that's interesting, another route to explore. Scan QI code or tap in the URL. Then get nothing or a general page that you have to do a lot of digging to get to something useful. That said the times I've seen a working links, it's great. A few councils/areas have used wikiloc instead of a website that was run as a pet project some years ago but now forgotten and the domain elapsed.
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@alan I just remembered that I did take a photo of one of these signs that I saw in the area around El Chorro, ES. Again, sadly a dead app and website.
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