Landroamer
How Landroamer names and draws trails
A trail is drawn at the extent the managing agency recognizes, named after the road, the place it goes, or the towns it connects, and drawn in Landroamer's own tools from public sources and our own driving. This page says what that means in practice.
Where a trail starts and ends
A trail runs the length of the route its managing agency recognizes — the Forest Service or BLM road, by its route number where one exists, from where the road starts to where it ends. Rampart Range Road is Forest Road 300 from one end to the other, so that is the trail. Where locals use another name, or run a shorter or longer version, that appears as an alias or as a connected piece, not as a different trail. When we deliberately depart from the way a route is commonly run, the trail page says so and says why.
What a trail is called
The name comes from the road, the place it goes, or the towns it connects, as they appear on agency maps and road signs. We don't invent trail names, and we don't attach one name to five different routes in the same area. A road with a number and no name keeps its number.
Where the line comes from
Every line is drawn by us, in our own drafting tool, and never imported from another product. The sources under the pen are public: OpenStreetMap road geometry, the Forest Service's Motor Vehicle Use Maps, BLM route data, state trail maps such as Colorado's COTREX, USGS LiDAR that shows a two-track under the trees where satellite imagery can't, and the trails we have driven ourselves. When members record a drive and submit it, a person reviews the recording and redraws the trail to the same standard before it's published; the recording itself is kept as a record of how the trail was made.
Difficulty, seasons and conditions
A trail's difficulty is the community's: the number members give it after they run it, averaged from the first rating on. Official seasons come from the Forest Service's Motor Vehicle Use Maps. Conditions come from members' status reports, dated and signed. None of it is copied from another guide.
Credits
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License · Basemaps © Mapbox · Trail seasons from USFS Motor Vehicle Use Maps · Land status from the Bureau of Land Management · Elevation from USGS 3DEP.