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

id = "ganaraska"
name = "Ganaraska Hiking Trail"
short_name = "GHT"
country = "CA"
regions = ["ON"]
length_km = 500
length_note = "about 500 km with side trails"
tier = "regional"
designation = "Ganaraska Hiking Trail Association"
wave = "held"
wave_note = "Held: the only track, OSM relation 3696751, covers the eastern half only (238.4 km, ending near Barrie) and does not reach Glen Huron. The Association sells a guidebook but publishes no open track. What would fix it: a track from the Ganaraska Hiking Trail Association, or complete OSM mapping of the western clubs sections."

[source]
status = "osm-only"
publisher = "Ganaraska Hiking Trail Association (publishes the trail; no open track found)"
url = "https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3696751"
discovery = "osm-relation-version: Overpass `rel(3696751); out meta;` (version and timestamp), or the Geofabrik replication diff; fetch again when it changes (relation v96, edited 2026-09-29)."
format = "OpenStreetMap route relation, 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 3696751."
attribution = "OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)"
osm_only = true
decision = "included-named"
decision_text = "Included with its name and logo. The track is from OpenStreetMap."
mainline = "One relation. It covers the eastern half and ends near Barrie; the western sections to Glen Huron are not mapped."
source_checked = "2026-11-08"
redistributable = true
line_source = "OpenStreetMap"
line_file = "line.geojson"
length_gap_note = "OSM relation 3696751 gives 238.4 km in 7 parts and ends near Barrie; it does not reach the Glen Huron terminus. The 500 km published figure includes branch trails. No usable whole track found on 2026-11-08. Held."

[osm]
relation = 3696751
note = "Found by a name search on 2026-11-08: relation 3696751 'Ganaraska Trail' (rwn). Downloaded; release.txt has the version."

[shield]
status = "use-real-logo"
logo_source = "https://ganaraska-hiking-trail.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cropped-GanaraskaLogo-e1452359706312-192x192.jpg"
contact = "Ganaraska Hiking Trail Association"
note = "Ganaraska Hiking Trail Association logo (the G arrow mark), from the Association's own site ganaraska-hiking-trail.org, converted from JPEG."
logo_file = "shield.png"
logo_owner = "Ganaraska Hiking Trail Association"

[verification]
verified = true
date = "2026-11-08"
measured_km = 238.4
difference_percent = -52.3
parts = 7
note = "OSM relation 3696751 gives 238.4 km in 7 parts and ends near Barrie; it does not reach the Glen Huron terminus. The 500 km published figure includes branch trails. No usable whole track found on 2026-11-08. Held."