Your Suggestions for the Future of the Buckeye Trail Maps

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The Buckeye Trail Association Maps Committee is asking our membership to help determine what direction the Buckeye Trail mapping products take in the future. Your vote counts and can influence how the BTA produces maps in the future!

Question 1: Please rank the following from 1 (most prefer) to 4 (least)?

a. Keep BT Section maps "as is", but add a separate Buckeye Trail data book (directions, campsites, water sources)

b. Create maps with the map image entirely on one side and the narrative on the opposite side.

c. Create more detailed maps on both sides and use a separate narrative trail log book (guide book) for details

d. Keep the maps as they are (maps and narrative mixed together on both sides)

Question 2

Rate 1 to 5 (one being least important and five being most important)

All maps should be in the same scale.

Maps should be a larger scale (show more detail per inch) than current ones

Maps should make use of more color to enhance readability

Colors and icons should be consistent from map to map

Conservation Lands should be shown on the map

Use of GPS coordinates to identify campsites, water and other points is important

Narrative trail log information should be provided for both directions of travel

Contour lines are important to me

All maps should be in the same scale.

Maps should be a larger scale (show more detail per inch) than current ones

Maps should make use of more color to enhance readability

Colors and icons should be consistent from map to map

Conservation Lands should be shown on the map

Use of GPS coordinates to identify campsites, water and other points is important

Narrative trail log information should be provided for both directions of travel

Contour lines are important to me

Clear selection

Question 3

If a concise data book is completed, would you like narrative trail log information:

Produced in a separate guide book

Included on Buckeye Trail hiking maps

Not at all

Clear selection

Question 4

Should a narrative trail log book be published and maintained?

Yes

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Question 5

Would you prefer more maps with greater detail, or fewer maps with less detail?

Greater detail

Fewer maps

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Question 6

Do you most often use your trail maps:

While planning a hike

While on the trail

Both

I never use maps

Question 7

Are the Buckeye Trail Section names currently used on BTA maps (like “New Straitsville Section”) important, or would a sequential numbering system for maps be preferable:

Section Names

Sequential Numbers

A combination

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Question 8

Are the current BT Sections named appropriately or would you like to see Section names that better describe the region the BT passes through?

Yes, Keep Sections named as they are

I would like to see some Section names reconsidered

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Question 9

In the trail log, do you prefer directions to be compass points (N, S, E, W) or “Left” and “Right” in your travel direction?

Compass points N, S, E, W

Left and Right

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Question 10

Should the maps and logs use “point numbers” to identify important intersections and features, as they currently do, or should they indicate actual mileage information along the trail route?

Leave Section points as they currently are

Change identification of important points to mileages along the route

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Question 11

If mileage information is included on the maps, should it be in the form of fixed distance marks (like every mile) or shown as distance between points?

Fixed Distance

Distance between points

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Question 11a

If you chose Fixed Distance, what distance would you like to see:

1.0 mile

1/2 mile

1/4 mile

1/10 mile

Other:

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Question 12

What other BT hiking products should we be looking into producing?

Please indicate which of the following describes you:

Male

Female

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Under 18

18-35

36-60

Over 60

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Live in

NE Ohio

SE Ohio

SW Ohio

NW Ohio

Other:

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I consider myself a:

Day Hiker only

Weekend Backpacker

Long Distance Backpacker

Some mixture of above

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I've been hiking for:

0-2 years

2-5 years

5-15 years

So long I can't remember

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