Congratulations in mapping your first trail in OSM! The trail is now shown in any OSM web client or mobile app visible to anyone around the world! There is just one small problem: your trail will only be visible on the map at higher zoom levels. And your trail might also be broken down into several smaller segments.

Both these problems are resolved by putting another logical "hiking route" layer on top of trails. An OSM "hiking route" is nothing more than a logical sequence of smaller trail segments group together in one logical end-to-end route. OSM hiking routes are visible at lower zoom levels in Waymarked Hiking Trails and OSMAnd.

Hiking routes are classified as per 4 different networks:
    iwn: International walking network: long distance paths that cross several countries
    nwn: National walking network: used for walking routes that are nationally significant and long distance paths
    rwn: Regional walking network: used for walking routes that cross regions and are regionally significant
    lwn: Local walking network: used for small local walking routes