piste:difficulty on relations (EN – FR)

As you may have noticed, OpenSnowMap.org renders pistes with no difficulty tagged with faint lines, and, if you zoom enough, there is a ? icon on the pistes. I figured out recently that some mappers add the piste:difficulty tag on route relations for crosscountry or nordic ski trails. So, I first

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OpenSnowMap donation drive winter 2020/2021 !

Opensnowmap.org is around for a few years now. The map tiles are viewed by tens of thousand of visitors each month. Although not bleeding edge technology, I think it’s a good thing to have it around in the Openstreetmap ecosystem, along with others like Thunderforest outdoors, openskimap.org,

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Blog transfert

The previous hosting plan for this blog.opensnowmap.org is ending its life in the coming months. I think I transfered about everything, adding comments here and there for very outdated articles. I copy-pasted the old comments quickly, sorry if it’s a bit confused.

New server is being deployed – URL change

Dear users, A generous donation accelerated the deployment of OpenSnowMap.org on a more powerful server. No big changes, except a faster rendering and the possibility to serve more tiles. This will help in following the increasing number of requests for ski maps. Many thanks to the team at

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Keep an eye on map changes

Some of you may already use the daily and weekly change view of Opensnowmap.org to check for changes on the ski pistes they mapped. Today, this view have been improved and now gives more information about the actual change. Is this a way, a relation deleted, a simple node moved? A new processing

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Opensnowmap desktop version refreshed too

After the mobile version, the desktop version have been refreshed to a more actual look, keeping the same features and as always, a big ski map !

Refresh OpenSnowMap.org mobile page

I spent a couple of hours to refresh the mobile version of Opensnowmap.org style and icons. Let me know if you like it. Maybe I’ve seen the website too often myself, but I find the new one refreshing. For the record, here was the old design:

Site maintenance mai 2019

Rendering is off for a few days due to database reload. Sorry for the pink tiles ! Yves

Pistes de fond dans le jura: ce qui reste à mapper

L’Espace NordiqueJurassien partage le tracé des pistes de ski de fond depuis l’espace pro de sa carte interactive (carte dispo ici ). Ces tracés sont d’origines diverses, et il ne fait pas sens de les copier dans OpenStreetMap. Cependant,cela permet une comparaison, et on peut

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New piste preset for iD

I made some modification in the ski piste presets for the iD editor. This is mainly intended to differentiate the meaning of piste:grooming and piste:difficulty tags depending on the type of piste(downhill, nordic, hike, etc …). Descriptions are according to the wiki, which is rather stable

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