Ski pistes mapping 2018

It’s been a few years since the last statistics about ski pistes mapping in Openstreetmap. You know it: Openstreetmap has the biggest worldwide skimap available. And still growing ! From today stats: Crossountry trails: 67961 km Alpine runs : 37287 km Lifts: 17647 km Sled runs : 1376

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2017 style improvements

I make no mystery of it: I’m a cross-country skier. I’ve run alpine skis only twice in my life, and definitely prefer the wild and quiet areas where you’re alone sweating your way in the middle of nowhere. This had had consequences on Opensnowmap.org, and I did not spent enough

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Improved ski ressorts rendering

OpenSnowMap.org renders ski ressorts at zoom 10,11 & 12. For this, it takes either site=piste relations or landuse=winter_sports polygons, and checks what type of pistes they contain (downhill, nordic, sled,etc…) in order to display small icons next to the ressort name. Until now, these

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http (s) ://www.opensnowmap.org

OpenSnowMap goes secure, on request. So, if you’re afraid someone might want to hack your favorite run, or simply to enable location in chrome, change your bookmarks.

The Snow Map base layer

When Mapquest layer disappeared, this was a problem for OpenSnowMap: its cold colors and less detailed style were great to overlay ski pistes onto. But the end of this freely available map forced me to build a simple style with plenty of room for ski pistes: the OpenSnowMap Base Snow Map. A winter

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Opensnowmap Tile Usage Policy

Opensnowmap offers overlay tile layers for ski pistes and winter sports. Two sets of tiles are available: one with only the pistes, and another one with relief background (shaded relief and contours lines). It seems that the layer with relief information is of great interest, even in

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More than 100’000 km of ski pistes and lifts on the map!

When you enter www.opensnowmap.org, there is a small counter that shows you the length of ski pistes and lifts there is in OSM each days. On june 6th, thetotal length of alpine and crosscountry ski pistes, skitour, snowshoeing, lifts and sleds pistes crossed the 100’000km line. Not bad,

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More ski map for your mobile

Elevation profiles and ski resorts statistics are now available for the mobile version of OpenSnowMap.org. I wanted to avoid displaying vector data on the map, this can cause performance issue on mobile devices. The elevation profile is now calculated with Matplotlib, along with a image view of

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New version of Opensnowmap

A new version? Wait … nothing has changed ! Well hopefully it’s the case. Opensnowmap.org website has been rewritten with a cleaner code separating HTML, CSS and Javascript. Also, a few good practises in website design have been implemented. For instance there is no blocking calls to

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Relief updated

Hillshade, contour lines and elevation profile calculation have been updated to a complete 1 arc-second resolution on Opensnowmap.org.