Dataset for use in public administration and for hiking and outdoor recreation purposes.

This data must act as a tool for the municipality for case management, planning and reporting, ensuring good administration of outdoor recreation areas by providing important basic information for efforts to map and value outdoor recreation areas and acting as important basic information for work on municipal path and trail plans, ensuring good mapping data for rescue activities and callouts and acting as a basis for derived outdoor recreation products.

When data is gathered in a national database, all users of the dataset will have the same starting point that can form a basis in other products.

The dataset is suitable as a basis at all levels of planning and building work; in national plans, county, regional and municipal plans, building projects, RAV analyses and impact assessment. The geometry in particular is important to indicate where hiking routes and trails run. In addition, attributes such as special route type, route type and route importance can indicate more about the kind of route and/or trail registered.

Open data. Data capture is largely based on reports from teams, associations and private individuals via the map service **"Rett i kartet"**. Data is checked and assessed manually in relation to basic data (FKB and N50 Map Data). The basis used for defining a hiking route may be taken from various objects from e.g. **FKB-TraktorvegSti**, N50 Map Data, digitised from various hiking maps, orthophotos or other basic maps. Data may also be gathered using handheld GPS devices. The quality of the hiking routes is dependent on the measurement methods or registration methods used for the hiking route in question.

Path, hiking route and hiking suggestion are terms that are used widely in connection with this dataset, and they are closely interlinked. The path is the specific object that can be found in the terrain and that may be marked or unmarked, while the hiking route is slightly more than just a path. The hiking route is arranged with marking and/or signposting, and someone is responsible for maintaining it to ensure that it is accessible.

"Hiking route" is a generic term for hiking paths, trails and hiking roads and routes for hiking, skiing, cycling or canoeing/rowing. A hiking route may follow various physical objects such as a path, tractor route or road, or even the smaller specific objects such as marshes and ridges.

The path is administered in a national database known as **FKB-traktorvegSti**. Collecting together hiking routes in one national database known as Hiking and outdoor recreation routes is preferred. Hiking suggestions, which are descriptions of hiking routes, are not managed by the Norwegian Mapping Authority.

fylkesvis, kommunevis, landsfiler

ISO19115

2003