On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 11:08:44AM +0100, Friedrich Volkmann wrote: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/register > > This is for books where people enter their names, routes and comments. These > books are located on peaks, along trails, in buildings and in caves. > In German we call them Gipfelbuch, Steigbuch, Hüttenbuch, Gästebuch, > Höhlenbuch, Pilgerbuch, Turmbuch... > English terminology seems more ambiguous. I took the word that seems most > common.
As far as I know, this started on Dartmoor in 1854 and is known as letterboxing. Long before OSM and gps, I visited some of the original boxes on Dartmoor. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterboxing_%28hobby%29 . I don't know if any of the Dartmoor boxes are marked in OSM. A very quick search didn't find anything. I *think* that a very few were marked on OS maps, and maybe still are. At least, I think that's how I navigated to them long ago. ael _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
