Sentier international des Appalaches (International Appalachian Trail, Quebec and New Brunswick) IAT-CA

The record

Kind

Designated trailDesignated, maintained and published as one trail by a land agency or a trail association

Designation

Sentier international des Appalaches; International Appalachian Trail

Tier

RegionalA long trail of 80 km (50 mi) or more

Listing

First setIn the first set of trails

Where

QC NB (Quebec, New Brunswick), Canada

Published length

1,177 km731 miabout 650 km in Quebec (SIA-QC) plus about 527 km in New Brunswick; Maine section not in this record. A check value, not measured from the track.

Short name

IAT-CA

Record ID

sentier-international-appalachesStable: the directory name, never changed

Verification Checked 2026-11-08

Measured

YesThe track was downloaded and measured

Published

1,177 km731 mi

Measured

1,164.3 km723 migeodesic, from the track

Difference

−1.1%measured minus published

Parts

2pieces left after joining ends within 100 m

Quebec (9318808) and New Brunswick (6544824) together: 1,164.3 km in 2 parts, -1.1% against 1,177 km (650 km Quebec plus 527 km New Brunswick). The earlier +16.4% used a 1,000 km published figure that understates New Brunswick.

Source and licence

Track in this dataset

line.geojsonThe main track file of the record

Source status

OpenStreetMap onlyThe only source is an OpenStreetMap route relation

Publisher

Sentier international des Appalaches (Québec); IAT New Brunswick (publishes the trail; no open geometry found)

Source

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/9318808Where to ask for the track: a layer or relation page

Track source

OpenStreetMap

Format

OpenStreetMap relation, read through Overpass or a Geofabrik extract

Main track

OSM 9318808 plus six SIA section relations; New Brunswick 6544824.How the main track is told apart from alternates, connectors and side trails

Coordinates

EPSG:4326What the source stores; published files are longitude/latitude (EPSG:4326)

Licence

ODbL 1.0

Credit

© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)The credit line to show, as the source asks

May be passed on

YesThe source's terms allow its track to be passed on

OpenStreetMap only

YesOpenStreetMap is the only source of the included track

Source checked

2026-11-08

Newer release?

osm-relation-version: Overpass rel(ID); out meta; (version and timestamp), or the Geofabrik replication diff; fetch again when it changesHow to tell whether the source has a newer release

What the source says

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 9318808.

With the page it was read on. Not legal advice.

OpenStreetMap

Relation

9318808

Note

Downloaded 2026-11-08; release.txt has the relation version and timestamp.

Logo

Status

Logo in useThe trail has a logo

Holder

Sentier international des Appalaches

Taken from

https://www.sia-iat.com/

File

shield.png

Note

International Appalachian Trail logo (mountain mark) from SIA-IAT Quebec's own site sia-iat.com. The trail's GR A1 blaze is a separate red-and-white mark.

Corrections

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