Tourist and cartographic visualization of European walking route through Serbia: Section E7 on mountain Tara

Abstract

Owing to efforts of volunteers and minimal financial support by the Ministry of Economy and Regional Prosperity in the Government of the Republic of Serbia, the Mountaineering Association of Serbia managed to realize a large portion of the European Walking Route (EWR) Project in 2010 by designing and marking sections E 7 and E 4 through Serbia. The mountaineering organization and tourism on the national level have thus been given significant and almost free development opportunity. The paper focuses, firstly, on certain aspects of marked hiking routes and transversals which served as a basis for designing and marking the EWR and, secondly, on the EWR standards illustrated by example from Denmark. This is followed by elements of the standards and procedures for creating EWR through Serbia, as well as a critical survey of the existing mountaineering and hiking maps. The example of section E 7 on Mt. Tara has been given as being representative of the practice of cartographic modeling. The closing part contains concise suggestions for a future standard in the field of tourist and cartographic visualization of mountaineering centres through which the EWR goes in the territory of Serbia.

Zahvaljujući volonterskim naporima i minimalnim podsticajnim sredstvima Ministarstva za ekonomiju i regionalni razvoj Vlade Republike Srbije, Planinarski savez Srbije (PSS) je u toku 2010. godine realizovao glavni deo projekta Evropskog pešačkog puta (EPP) kroz Srbiju - deonice E7 i E4, čime su planinarska organizacija i turizam u nacionalnim okvirima dobili značajnu i gotovo besplatnu razvojnu šansu. S tim u vezi, u radu je najpre obrađen aspekt markiranih planinarskih pešačkih staza i transverzala koje su činile osnovu za projektovanje i trasiranje EPP, a zatim je predstavljen standard EPP na primeru iz Danske. Nakon toga su dati elementi standarda i procedura za izradu EPP kroz Srbiju, kritički osvrt na stanje planinarsko-turističkih karata u našoj zemlji, a prezentovan je i način kartografskog modelovanja EPP na primeru deonice E7 na planini Tari. Na kraju rada sublimirani su predlozi budućeg standarda turističko-kartografske vizuelizacije planinskih centara preko kojih prolazi deonica EPP kroz Srbiju.