The analysis of mountain tourist trails with GIS methods in the Lacul Rosu (Red Lake) Region, Hasmas Mountains (Romania)
The analysis of mountain tourist trails with GIS methods in the Lacul Rosu (Red Lake) Region, Hasmas Mountains (Romania)

Summary/Abstract: Almost all tourist trails in Romania were marked in the first decades of the last century. Nowadays these routes are remarked, and represent an important segment of touristic offer. Our research is concentrated on verifying some of the routes characteristics such as length, time. For this we developed a GIS system, which calculates these values, based on region DEM and tourist routes positions. The developed system has a friendly interface developed in Borland Delphi and a powerful GIS background using IDRISI modules. The results obtained from the system are quite surprising, values of the walk time differ very much in some cases from those specified in route descriptions. After verifying the base data and calculation methods in Hasmas Mountains we concluded, that historical route description holds some errors and our analysis system can be a valuable tool in tourist route analysis.

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