I use it too. There are mostly only official tourist routes on it. From the days when I used to go hiking, I know quite a lot of trails and local paths, which unfortunately are not there. Although, maybe that's a good thing. Some places should not even be known to the general public
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Hmm, this is surprising for me. I visited many places and never happened to me, that I walked on a different route than showed me maps. Also, the forest paths are there..
So, if you're a well-behaved tourist, of course you stick to the marked trails. If you're an old-school hiker, you know all sorts of shortcuts and paths that tourists simply don't go on. But beware, even hikers don't go where they're not supposed to. As a result, you know many places that are beautiful or unique in some way, like location Q, where the only tree snake in the Czech Republic can be found. And it's a good thing that people just aren't there. In a short while, it would look like everywhere else. Nowadays, it's a bit of a problem everywhere, it's all private property, you're not allowed to do anything there, or it's a fenced-in game preserve. When we used to wander through the forests and mountains, there was nothing like that. The foresters mostly knew us and knew that we wouldn't make a mess of any clearing and tolerated us. Today, tramping is practically dead.
I agree with you, but I know quite a bit Beskydy Mountains, and I am using routes, like nobody else. And all the routes are in mapy.cz.. that's why I am quite suprised..