The short version: walk safely.

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Your walk is your responsibility

Trails are made automatically from public map data and written by an AI model. Places may have moved, closed or never been where the map says; a route may cross a busy road, private land or somewhere that isn’t safe at that time of day. Always use your own judgement: follow local laws and signs, watch for traffic, stay aware of where you are, and turn back whenever something feels wrong. Children should walk with an adult. Let someone know where you’re going, especially if you leave your phone at home.

AI-written content

The words on your zine and in your Field Report are generated by Gemma. They can be wrong, odd or incomplete. Nothing Paper Trail writes is advice of any kind.

Fair use of the service

Please use Paper Trail through its pages. Don’t script it, flood it with requests or try to use its AI access for anything else. The service applies rate limits and a daily budget, and may block traffic that looks automated.

No warranty

The service and the code are provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, and may change or stop at any time. To the extent the law allows, the authors are not liable for any loss or harm arising from its use. The code is available under the MIT licence.

Map and weather data

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Weather data by Open-Meteo.

Contact

Questions, problems or something wrong on a trail? Open an issue on GitHub. See also the privacy page.