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.

New hillshading on OpenSnowMap.org

The relief (hillshading) layer on OpenSnowMap.org have been updated. On the major part of the world, resolution jumps to 30m instead of 90m beforehand,thanks to the ongoing release of 1 arc-second SRTM data by NASA. To mak a long story short, the relief is more precise by a x1.5 zoom factor. For

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Nouveau relief pour OpenSnowMap.org

La couche d’ombrage (hillshade) d’OpenSnowMap.org vient de subir un sérieux lifting. En effet, sur la plus grande partie du monde, la résolution passe à30m au lieu de 90m grâce à la mise à disposition progressive des données SRTM à1 seconde d’arc par la NASA (au lieu de 3

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Ski piste mapping 2014-0215

The season is over, time for stats! Mind you? With more than 35’000km of crosscountry pistes and 28’000km of alpine descent, there is some ski pistes left to maps in OSM. Mapping of ski pistes continues at a steady state. However the winter step is more obvious among crosscountry

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Pour les adeptes de la poudreuse !

Peut-être que dans votre station préférée, certaines pistes ne sont pas dammées. Elle font pourtant partie des pistes du domaine et sont sécurisées. Dans OpenStreetMap, ce sont des chemins taggués piste:type=dowhnill +piste:grooming=backcountry. Désormais, pour OpenSnowMap.org, ce sont

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Rendering change: for powder addicts !

Maybe in your favorite resorts, some ski pistes are maintained but not groomed. However, they are part of the ‘official’ and securized piste network. In openstreetmap, they are called piste:type=dowhnill +piste:grooming=backcountry. Now, in OpenSnowMap.org, this is dashed lines,

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Comment intégrer une carte de ski sur votre site web ?

C’est tout simple, vous trouverez un exemple rapide ici: How-to. Pour une intégration un peu plus poussée, les tuiles d’Opensnowmap.org sont à cette adresse: http://tiles.opensnowmap.org/pistes/{z}/{x}/{y}.png.Utilisez-les avec OpenLayers ou Leaflet. N’oubliez pas de

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