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Stable URLs for 42,000 Huts and Peaks


How every hut, bivouac and peak on biwak.info gets a short, readable URL like /p/matterhorn that never changes: unique names keep the plain name, shared names get the region, then the elevation, then the OpenStreetMap id, and a committed registry makes sure a slug never moves to another place.

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