Making sense of openstreetmap ski data

Some Opensnowmap.org services now rely on a smarter pistes search API than previously. It’s not replacing a Xapi or Overpass API, but is oriented toward a webservice that allows one to find what people usually calls a ‘ski piste’. On Opensnowmap, there is less redundant search

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Opensnowmap.org in Japanese

Thanks to a contributor, the website is now translated in japanese. Also, mapnik were not properly rendering piste names in japanese nor korean: it’s nowfixed. To provide translation in your own language, or complete the existing translation, check these files on github, then translate from

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Premier mapping de la saison

C’est parti ! Ma première sortie hier m’a permis d’ajuster La Mathiez Sarrazin, sur le massif de la Haute-Joux. Une première boucle assez tranquille que j’ai mappé ‘novice’, puis une deuxième un peu plus vallonée ou ‘easy’, le tout avec un bon

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Opensnowmap improved rendering

The opensnowmap layer is getting ready for winter. Gladed, mogul and lit pistes are now rendered with appropriate icons Area pistes are now properly transparent for a better integration on top of topo layers Overall look of the layer is improved thanks to a better aliasing and smoothing of the

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Opensnowmap mobile version

Opensnowmap.org is now available in a mobile-friendlyversion. mobileversion The main navigation features have been integrated in this version.However, you won’t find the elevation profile and micro-routing functions. First, because it’s complicated, and then, because I did not find

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Opensnowmap.org news

A few improvements had been put online recently: Routing controls: intermediate points are now draggable. Double-click to delete. Permalink with marker: accessible from the menu, a permalink with marker let’s you share a meeting point with your friends (example). Resorts shown from zoom 5

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Improved ski routing

The routing function have been improved. Now the start and end points are theclosest point on the closest piste. Sound logical, but it wasn’t the casebefore. This now means that you can take a lift at mid-slope, on Opensnowmap.orgwebsite, at least ! For those that did not knew the

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Ski resorts: cool stuff with relation type=site

Relations type=site, site=pisteare used to map a ‘ski ressort’ or ‘skiing area’. There are relations grouping all winter sport features that are member of a particular ressort. Their name is rendered at intermediate zoom on Opensnowmap.org. Creating relations site=piste not

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Opensnowmap goes west !

Us and Canadian downhill pistes are now rendered with a local coloring scheme: green / blue / black diamond.

Opensnowmap on Android

Thanks to Osmdroid, it’s relatively easy to build a simple map application for Android, so here it is : Opensnowmapapp on google play It offers simple online map browsing and piste / place search by name. Ihope it is more convenient to browse ski trails than on your mobile browser,though I

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