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

id = "vancouver-island"
name = "Vancouver Island Trail"
short_name = "VIT"
country = "CA"
regions = ["BC"]
length_km = 800
length_note = "nearly 800 km, from the Vancouver Island Trail Association page"
tier = "regional"
designation = "Vancouver Island Trail Association"
wave = 1

[source]
status = "osm-only"
publisher = "Vancouver Island Trail Association (publishes the trail; no open geometry found)"
publisher_url = "https://www.vancouverislandtrail.ca/"
url = "https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/12038457"
discovery = "osm-relation-version: Overpass `rel(12038457); out meta;` (version and timestamp), or the Geofabrik replication diff; fetch again when it changes"
format = "OpenStreetMap route relation, read through Overpass with all member ways"
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 2026-11-10). The track included here is from OpenStreetMap, relation 12038457."
attribution = "OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)"
osm_only = true
mainline = "OSM relation 12038457: the whole route, main ways only. The 33 ways with a side role are in alternates.geojson."
source_checked = "2026-11-10"
redistributable = true
line_source = "OpenStreetMap"
line_file = "line.geojson"

[osm]
relation = 12038457
note = "Downloaded 2026-11-10; 1008 ways in the main track and 33 in alternates. release.txt has the source and date."

[shield]
status = "logo-not-found"
logo_source = ""
contact = "Vancouver Island Trail Association"
note = "No logo is included. Ask the trail's holder before using its mark."
logo_file = ""
logo_owner = "Vancouver Island Trail Association"

[verification]
verified = true
date = "2026-11-10"
measured_km = 733.1
difference_percent = -8.4
parts = 7
note = "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."