How to embed a ski map on your website ?

This is simple and easy. You will find a quick example here: How-to. For a better integration, you can also directly use the tiles at http://tiles.opensnowmap.org/pistes/{z}/{x}/{y}.png with your favorite map library, like OpenLayers or Leaflet. Don’t forget to give a proper attribution to

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2014 Stats

Simply the pistes added in the openstreetmap database every year until now,2014 update. Openstreetmap ski map is still the most comprehensive ski map world-wide. On28.12.2014, 79665 km of ski trails on the map. Nordic: 31820 km Alpine: 26823 km Lifts: 17132 km Skitour: 2379 km Sled: 953

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Ski lifts names

Ski lifts names are now displayed on OpenSnowMap. This wasn’t done until now because I was unable to place the name labels exactly at the same place than on OpenStreetMap background map. The rendering of ski lifts names (aerialways) being removed from osm-carto sytle, it’s much easier

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Ajouter une piste de ski de fond avec iD

Il existe plusieurs solutions pour rajouter des chemins dans Openstreetmap.Le dernier-né des éditeurs s’appelle ‘iD’.  Avant de commencer, peut-être avez-vous une trace.GPX de votre ballade en ski? Sinon, pas de problème: vous pourrez utilisez votre mémoire et une photo

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They use Opensnowmap

I was requested by a few people to use opensnowmap.org tiles on their website. Now you can find them on: Bayern Atlas -Bayern Geoportal Labonnepiste.com To do the same, it’s easy: you just have to tell me so, and use a proper referrer and user-agent. Of course you need to acknowledge

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Offline tiles updated

The sqlites containing opensnowmap.org tiles up to zoom 16 have been updatedfrom fresh data on 06.03.2014. They can be used on your mobile device orwhatever. Check here: http://opensnowmap.org/iframes/data.html or directly here http://www.opensnowmap.org/data-download/ Yves

Resort mapping incentive

It’s nice to have the largest ski map worldwide at hand with OpenstreetMap. Now with a few mapping efforts, some really useful services could arise from this data. Not only inputting more pistes on the map (there is still plenty to map !) but also in organizing them by ski resorts with

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No ski mapper in Americas ?

Is there anybody mapping ski pistes any more in the USA? It’s winter there too, but here are the piste edits for last month (red dots) : Or do I have an issue with my script ? Anyway, glad to see on the last Modis update that the sun is shinning again above scandinavia: If the satellites

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Opensnowmap news

A few things happened since Christmas. The server had some issues when updating the pistes daily: the (small) disks were full. I took the opportunity to change the server and hosting. All is runnning normally now, and the new server is big enough to handle the relief and contour lines data on the

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Opensnowmap 2014 flavour

Opensnowmap.org has a brand new design for 2014. After the mobile version were born three month ago, I figured out I could use part of what I learnt to improve the overall look of the main site. I was also suggested some useful improvements from the french mailing-list. This new skin should also

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