# Pistoia Map: detailed project guide

## Identity

- Canonical site: https://pistoiamap.com/
- Place: Pistoia
- Geographic context: Tuscany · Italy
- Map center: longitude 10.9177, latitude 43.9336
- Language and locale: en; en-GB
- Units: metric
- Current data revision: pistoia-20260830T053757Z

Pistoia Map is an independent English-language field guide for exploring Pistoia, Tuscany on foot. Independent visitor project · Not an official Comune, Province, or tourism website.

## Intended uses

- Find parks and playgrounds across the Comune di Pistoia.
- Follow mapped walking and hiking routes in and around the city.
- Locate public-safety services and a considered set of visitor attractions.

## Enabled map categories

- Parks & Playgrounds: mixed geometry; API layers parks.
- Trails: line geometry; API layers trails.
- Public Safety: point geometry; API layers safety.
- Attractions: mixed geometry; API layers attractions.

## Application capabilities

- addressSearch: disabled
- parcels: disabled
- schoolAssignment: disabled
- neighborhoods: disabled
- history: disabled
- contact: disabled

## Machine-readable resources

- Site configuration: https://pistoiamap.com/api/site-config
- parks map data: https://pistoiamap.com/api/map-data/parks
- trails map data: https://pistoiamap.com/api/map-data/trails
- safety map data: https://pistoiamap.com/api/map-data/safety
- attractions map data: https://pistoiamap.com/api/map-data/attractions
- Concise LLM orientation: https://pistoiamap.com/llms.txt
- XML sitemap: https://pistoiamap.com/sitemap.xml

Map-data endpoints return JSON containing GeoJSON feature collections plus source metadata. Respect rate limits and the licenses or terms attached to upstream sources.

## Sources

- OpenStreetMap — Parks, playgrounds, public-safety services, and geographic context. https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
- Provincia di Pistoia — Itinerari presenti — Provincial walking-route geometry published as open data. https://dati.toscana.it/dataset/itinerari-presenti
- Visit Tuscany — Editorial context for the selected attraction allowlist. https://www.visittuscany.com/en/ideas/10-things-to-do-in-pistoia/

## Limitations and verification

- This independent visitor project is not an official Comune, Province, or tourism service.
- Source names remain in their native Italian where that is the clearest identifier.
- Opening hours, access, route conditions, and emergency-service details must be verified with authoritative sources.

## Citation guidance

When describing this project, call it “Pistoia Map” and link to https://pistoiamap.com/. Treat it as an independent discovery tool. For official, legal, enrollment, safety, property, route-access, opening-hours, or other time-sensitive claims, cite and verify against the relevant authoritative source above rather than relying solely on this map.