# Long-trail record. Field meanings: docs/schema.md in this repository.

id = "finger-lakes"
name = "Finger Lakes Trail"
short_name = "FLT"
country = "US"
regions = ["NY"]
length_km = 950
length_note = "about 590 mi with branches"
tier = "regional"
designation = "Finger Lakes Trail Conference; the North Country NST follows it in NY"
wave = 1

[source]
status = "osm-only"
publisher = "Finger Lakes Trail Conference (publishes the trail; the North Country Trail Association hosts its track as 'agol_flt')"
url = "https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/12725656"
discovery = "osm-relation-version: Overpass `rel(ID); out meta;` (version and timestamp), or the Geofabrik replication diff; fetch again when any of the four region relations changes (v13 to v20, edited 2026-01-20 to 2026-09-06)."
format = "OpenStreetMap route relations, four regions, read through Overpass or a Geofabrik extract"
crs = "EPSG:4326"
licence = "ODbL-1.0"
licence_text = "OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0 (share-alike). Credit: © OpenStreetMap contributors. The OpenStreetMap copyright page states: 'You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our data, as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors.' (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright, read 2026-11-09). The track included here is from OpenStreetMap, relation 12725656."
attribution = "OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)"
osm_only = true
decision = "included-named"
decision_text = "Included with its name and logo. The track is from OpenStreetMap."
mainline = "Four region relations: Allegany (12725656), Western Finger Lakes (12725657), Eastern Finger Lakes (12725658) and Catskill (12725661). The two spur relations (Lick Brook, Buttermilk Falls) are in alternates.geojson."
source_checked = "2026-11-08"
redistributable = true
line_source = "OpenStreetMap"
line_file = "line.geojson"

[osm]
relation = 12725656
note = "Four region relations are the track: 12725656 Allegany, 12725657 Western Finger Lakes, 12725658 Eastern Finger Lakes, 12725661 Catskill. Two spur relations (11285669 Lick Brook, 11285670 Buttermilk Falls) are in alternates.geojson. Downloaded 2026-11-08; release.txt has the versions."

[shield]
status = "use-real-logo"
logo_source = "https://fingerlakestrail.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/finger-lakes-trail-logo-small.png"
contact = "Finger Lakes Trail Conference"
note = "The Conference's own mark, from its site: the yellow octagon with dark-green firs and 'FT / FINGER LAKES TRAIL', 82x96 PNG."
logo_file = "shield.png"
logo_owner = "Finger Lakes Trail Conference"

[verification]
verified = true
date = "2026-11-08"
measured_km = 921.1
difference_percent = -3.0
parts = 2
note = "The NCT-hosted layer holds only the segments the North Country Trail shares (628.9 km); the four OSM region relations are the whole Finger Lakes Trail and are used here: 921.1 km, 3.0% short of 950 km. The layer extract is kept as source-fragment.geojson."