Vancouver Island Trail VIT

The record

Kind

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

Designation

Vancouver Island Trail Association

Tier

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

Listing

First setIn the first set of trails

Where

BC (British Columbia), Canada

Published length

800 km497 minearly 800 km, from the Vancouver Island Trail Association page. A check value, not measured from the track.

Short name

VIT

Record ID

vancouver-islandStable: the directory name, never changed

Verification Checked 2026-11-10

Measured

YesThe track was downloaded and measured

Published

800 km497 mi

Measured

733.1 km456 migeodesic, from the track

Difference

−8.4%measured minus published

Parts

7pieces left after joining ends within 100 m

OSM relation 12038457, 1008 ways: 733.1 km in 7 parts, 8.4% short of the published 800 km. The 33 ways with a side role are in alternates.geojson. The pieces do not all join: OpenStreetMap is missing the connectors between them.

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

Vancouver Island Trail Association (publishes the trail; no open geometry found)

Publisher’s page

https://www.vancouverislandtrail.ca/

Source

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/12038457Where to ask for the track: a layer or relation page

Track source

OpenStreetMap

Format

OpenStreetMap route relation, read through Overpass with all member ways

Main track

OSM relation 12038457: the whole route, main ways only. The 33 ways with a side role are in alternates.geojson.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

2026-11-10

Newer release?

osm-relation-version: Overpass rel(12038457); 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 2026-11-10). The track included here is from OpenStreetMap, relation 12038457.

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

OpenStreetMap

Relation

12038457

Note

Downloaded 2026-11-10; 1008 ways in the main track and 33 in alternates. release.txt has the source and date.

Logo

Logo not found. No logo is included. Ask the trail's holder before using its mark.

Corrections

This record is a text file anyone can correct. Please say where a correction can be checked: a source page, a map, or a measured track.

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