New routing backend

There’s a brand new routing engine at Opensnowmap.org! All known piste:type ways and relations are routable (that is, if you don’t know them yet: nordic, downhill, connection, sled, hike, skitour, ski_jump, ski_jump_landing_area, fatbike, sleigh, playground, snow_park, and of course

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OpenSnowMap.org ‘desktop’ version phasing-out

I recently added the remaining missing functionalities of the website to the mobile-friendly version, so now it’s time to de-commission the other version. I hope you won’t be too disappointed to see the old design disappear. This was inherited from ‘pistes-nordiques.org’

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Routing is now availale on mobile

After the switch to Openlayers 6 a few weeks ago, I am now able to provide the Opensnowmap mobile version with routing functionality. Routing works in a similar way than on the desktop version, it’s only point and click (or rather tap and tap), there is no geocoder. You can however use the

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New Opensnowmap for mobile devices

The new mobile version of Opensnowmap is now available after a major overhaul at https://www.opensnowmap.org/mobile.html. This shouldn’t change a lot of things if you are already used to the mobile website. There is however a new control to get more information about the OpenStreetMap ski

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OpenSnowMap summer upgrade

The lower traffic on opensnowmap.org website during the summer is the opportunity for some maintenance works and map style upgrade in the following weeks. Database reload – The base topo map database will be reloaded. It has some glitches (some elements are inexplicably missing), and the

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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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