Monitoring oznakowania szlaków turystycznych w Babiogórskim Parku Narodowym (badania SKNG UP w BgPN’ 2017) – metodyka pomiaru i kontrola utworzonej bazy danych / Monitoring of tourist trails marking in Babia Góra National Park (Research of SKNG UP in BGNP

Abstrakt

Marked walking trails are one of the basic elements of tourism infrastructure.
In Poland the signs have rectangular shape with three horizontal bands. The top and lower band is white, whereas the middle is marked on one of five colours used to division of trails, for example on the tourist maps. The density of marks’ spatial distribution depends on a number of facts: the surface of the road in the trail, frequent intersections with other roads and trails, ability to orient on the trail (e.g. forest, frequent occurrence of fog etc.). The marks’ density also undergoes gradual changes caused by: weather conditions, destruction of medium (e.g. windthrow of tree with sign), the vandalism acts made by some „tourists”.

The Geography Students Scientific Club of Pedagogical University in Kraków made the monitoring of signs on the tourist trails in the part of polish Carpathians in 2017. The study area was the network of walking tourist trails in Babia Góra National Park as well as its immediate neighborhood (http://www.bgpn.pl/, Fig. 1). The research was conducted by dynamic GPS survey (Fot. 1). The aims of article were description of research method, to show the results of monitoring audit and compiled database, which can be made by other Association participants.

The students went by five various, but partially congruent routes (Tab. 1). The four segments were checked several times by various researchers and were used to audit of the monitoring (Fig. 2, Tab. 2). The whloe length of the segments was 13,3% of total length of trails which were checked (Tab. 3, Fig. 3-6). The results of audit were satisfactory – only one mark (for 156 used in audit) was obviously ignored by one of researchers. In more than 80% cases the differences in signs’ location were less than 5 m. After the audit the spatial data showing the signs location were collected on one point layer in GIS environment. A polyline layer (with trails network added) was made for further analyses as well.

The spatial database established in Geographical Information Systems is the result of the article. The basic statistics of database are shown in table 4. and figure 7.