Today the weather conditions haven’t been optimal for biking, so I grabbed a car and visited the Black Forest. Fortunately it was open today.
Until last year, I hoped that one day hikers would start to map Black Forest trails. The fun finally started in 2009, when new data popped up frequently. The downside was that you went mapping and noticed that the trip was useless as another mapper was quicker. The more I am surprised that I still find a lot of missing trails nowadays, even tracks of grade 1. I’m not disappointed at all – the opposite is the case :) . That’s the area I’m talking about. Obviously the tracks on the left hand side (west) are almost complete, while on the right hand side (east) a lot of details are still missing. So there’s still room for some occasional weekend trips:
Tracks near Ruhestein (openstreetmap.org and its contributors, CC-by-SA)
On my way back I stopped at the Ottenhöfen station. The last time I was there I had no minutes left to map this area. The only data that existed west of the Allerheiligenstraße and south of the Ruhesteinstraße was the railway and the stream. Now it’s a bit more, but still not complete:
Area around the Ottenhöfen Station (openstreetmap.org and its contributors, CC-by-SA)
I’m not a trainspotter at all, but here’s an image of the historic Achertalbahn at the Ottenhöfen station (I apologize for the overexposure on the right hand side):
Achertalbahn (copyright Christoph Eckert 2010, all rights reserved)
A nice sunday afternoon trip, though it was way too cold.
