- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- trailscartographyrecreation
The detail frame where the archive’s only ground truth is. Twelve runs totalling 6.55 km were walked at tread pace in 2024-25 and are absent from OpenStreetMap; five further runs were searched slowly and no tread was found, recorded so the same ground is not searched twice.
A negative here is evidence about one walk, not proof that no trail exists.
Open questions
- Have any of the twelve GPS-walked runs missing from OpenStreetMap been submitted to OSM, closing the published-but-unmapped gap for those segments?
- Do any of the five runs searched with no tread found correspond to a route named in a print source, such as a Beacon article or a township trail map, that this ground survey should be reconciled against?
If you can answer any of these, or correct anything above, the archive wants to hear it — see Corrections.
Sources
- Archive-generated trail atlas plate.Drawn from the archive's own OpenStreetMap trail extract, the walked GPS tracks of 2024-25, the trail-review package, and USGS 3DEP 2018 1 m bare-earth lidar. Map data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); relief and the 1986 quadrangle continuation are public domain.scripts · make_trail_map
Added 16 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “The south end trails, walked and mapped”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/map/atlas-beaver-island-south-trails/, accessed [date], citing Archive-generated trail atlas plate..
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