High resolution relief for Switzerland

If you happen to come skiing in Switzerland, there is a new option to display the relief with higher resolution thanks to the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo. Before: After: The data is from SwissALTI3D. They are processed on-the-fly in your browser, so display can be quite slow and

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What about grooming ski pistes this summer ?

Depending on the area, the default nordic skiing practice differs a lot. While in western Europe one can expect a wide area for skating plus tracks for classic style skiing, this is not the case everywhere in the world. In some regions, the piste preparation is much lighter and the majority of

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Major update !!! (But you won’t notice)

The OpenSnowMap so called ‘API’ just had a major refresh. This is the piece of code that tells you what piste is what when you click on it, list the ones currently on the map and find pistes when you search them by name. It also computes resorts statistics, and so on. Once based on

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January 2022 at OpenSnowMap.org

A couple of new features are available on OpenSnowMap: pgRouting-based routing is now live, a few fix have been made this week. piste:type=fatbike is now rendered on the map New icons now render distinctely the lazy, catch-all aerialway=draglift and aerialway=t-bar, aerialway=j-bar,

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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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