[QUOTE="Ray J, post: 577129, member: 51707"The map on the
HUB Geoculturale – Appia Regina Viarum site shows exactly the route I'm interested in. Now, all I need to do is figure out how much (if any) of it actually exists in some form or another. [/QUOTE]
Hi Ray,
I'm glad the map helped. Whether the trails actually exist is an interesting problem to try to figure out. I had the same problem with some trails in the Serrania de Ronda in southern Spain that I found on a map, but couldn't find any evidence of anyone actually having walked them. I emailed the Diputación Provincial de Málaga (who had put the basemap I was looking at on their website), and they very nicely gave me a link that let me access the maps directly in a fuller form, which helped somewhat. Maybe you could find a sympathetic person in the Italian government mapping department that put up the HUB map who would help you...?
Another thought (but maybe you've already tried this) is to try to match up the exact spot where you think a trail stage might start on the
search map on Wikiloc, zoom in as far as possible, and see if any symbols pop up from someone uploading a track, even if it isn't labeled as a stage of the Appian Way. You could also enable wikiloc tracks on Google Earth and see if there are any that look like they go along trails you can visually see (but not all the existing wikiloc tracks are linked to Google Earth).
Directions for how to do this are on the wikiloc website.
I tried looking at some, and it seems that GerardNL's tracks are often the closest. Maybe if you email him, he will know some specific sources you could investigate.
One last thought: Have you tried using any of the map overlays on
Gaia? I just looked at Italy with the
Gaia topo map enabled in layers, and it looks like maybe it shows the stages (but I'm not familiar enough with them to tell). Since these can all be turned into GPS tracks if you draw along them to set up a route, maybe that would help you find them once you were on the spot. There are
directions here and
here for how to do this, if you haven't used Gaia before. Or maybe there is a way to export the routes from the HUB map to Gaia.
Have fun. It sounds like a great project!
Elaine