Simon Poole simon@poole.ch writes:
No, the whole point of trademark law is to stop competitors from labelling competing products with the same or similar names and any maps and route descriptions would clearly be exactly that. SchweizMobil has, as you probably know, taken the stance that we are competition (which in some aspects is clearly true).
Hmm, you certainly can not print a map and put a big SchweizMobil logo on the cover. But, are you really not allowed to publish a route description or a map from your own observations? And even if the route name was a registered trademark I would argue it applies to the route itself and not to the description or the map. And if you put that name on a map to refer to the original route you are using the trademark as a reference to that.
Anyway the argument is somewhat moot, I just did a short search and couldn't find anything that SchweizMobil has registered (which is the other silly extreme compared to the stuff the Fédération française de la randonnée pédestre has protected). That leaves normal copyright (well really Urheberrecht) protection on their materials.
If you want to do the work to rename everything more power to you.
To do actual renaming would be a next step. One that is probably more controversial than changing the wiki page. The naming does not always even follow that wiki page and is sometimes quite elaborate like "ncn 8 - Aare-Route (Oberwald (Gletsch)-Koblenz)" for the super-relation and "ncn 8 - Etappe 2 (Meiringen-Spiez)" for the second stretch. I did not check the other routes. Those details might be better put into a description tag or so.
Matthias