The result was (similar to Sweden and Italy) that we don’t have a lot of public data about hiking trails and what little we have is lacking in multiple ways.
I am curious whether there is a law in Germany concerning open data?
Would anyone here like to push for more open data about hiking trails in Germany?
In Sweden, we got a new law last year which requires public companies and authorities to share data if they have it when requested, with a few exceptions.
This law has never been tested in the courts, and the authorities I contact with are either not aware of the law or breaks it by refusing to share the data.
The result was (similar to Sweden and Italy) that we don’t have a lot of public data about hiking trails and what little we have is lacking in multiple ways.
the German situation is not at all comparable to the Italian situation, because the Italian Alpine Club (CAI) is officially collaborating with the Italian OpenStreetMap-Foundation chapter for many years now, and is actively contributing all of the signposted Italian hiking trails that it manages into OpenStreetMap (more than 100.000km) including detail rich metadata (length, times, ascent, descent etc.).
