Last week there was a discussion going on about getting the amount of exposure of Scottish hills up here on SP. I'm personally much in favour of keeping this going, so I figured it might me a good idea to start a sort of "central thread" for everything related to Scottish hills.
Original discussion on Taxonomy Planning
As of today, we have 4 Area's and Ranges, 51 Mountains and Rocks, of which 35 Munro's and 1 that should be a A&R page instead of a M&R in my personal opinion (Cuillin Ridge), 1 Hut and Campground (Kingshouse), 1 Logistical Centre (Fort William), 3.5 list (Munros, Murdos, Corbetts and the Nat'l parks page which takes in all of Europe, of which Lolli recently transferred complete ownership to me) In addition to this, there are also 61 various routes onto various hills described here in great detail on SP.
In my opinion, to make stuff more navigable to the general public; the ideal system would be something similar to this:
Area and Range (Upper level)---------------*************
*********|*************************|*************
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Area and Range (Lower level)--------Logistical Centre*****
*********|*******|*******\*****/******************
*********|*******|********\***/*******************
*********|*******|*********\*/********************
Mountain or Rock ---|-----------------Hut and Campground**
*********|*******|*******************************
*********|****Trip Report**************************
*********|***************************************
*******Route*************************************
| = Child/Parent
/ , \ or -- Related
Another thing we might want to discuss, concerning Boydie's introduction of Huts and Campgrounds to Scotland is to which extent we want to include bothies in this list. I know the MBA is not very keen on making lists of bothies complete with grid references available to the general public, and most hillwalkers know their location anyway. Personally, I think we should side with the MBA on this, because they are the ones maintaining them and keeping them available for our use, and I would not like to see bothies disappearing because of abuse or vandalism which could be derived straight from a detailed page here on SP. On the other hand, I don't see your average Paisley ned surfing SP to find out which would be the next good highland bothy to trash out. In the past, I have given out undetailed information, such as names (Staoineag, Camasunary, Ryvoan) and general location such as "2 hours out from Corrour" on the message board or on pages, and the more detailed stuff only in PM's.
What do all of you think?