The one thing about Buckeye Trail's map & guides is that they are not good forever. Sometimes it's routed as it had a right to pass on private property. If an easement wasn't made, a new owner could occupy the land and not grant the same right. In the past, trail alerts and map updates were only granted from 4 years past the publish date. Some of the maps more than exceeded that at retail because there weren't any changes on that section during that time. But, Buckeye started digitizing their maps. And when they did, they started replacing ones that were made in the old style regardless how old their editions were.
As an example, the current edition of the St. Marys Section map & guide as of today is the February 2007. If we were to go by the old rules, as soon as a newer edition of this map goes up for sale, the 2/07 will be obsolete and no longer supported (the support part may or may not actually happen). Since I monitor the course and conditions of the trail year round for the Ohio Transit Hiker's Resource (OTHR), I have to go though all of my paper maps one by one, check their editions and note their map updates on the front cover with a Sharpie marker. Right now, progress on the new edition of the OTHR is stopped pending the arrival of three new Buckeye Trail maps.
Aside from that, yesterday, I started writing a new document for a blog to be hosted by me here on Treeman's Adventures. It's called "Supplementary Information : The Wilderness Loop," which regards the Road Fork, Whipple and parts of the Belle Valley and Stockport Sections of the Buckeye Trail. I think these sort of pages are going to be the kind of thing that get updated themselves when necessary. That's different from other blog entries here where any new information appears as a comment, or a new blog entry.
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