Winter sports
 Feature : Winter sports
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| Description |
| For mapping features relevant to winter sports. |
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For mapping features relevant to winter sports, including down-hill skiing, nordic skiing and skating, snowshoeing, etc.
Tagging
Ways : PisteMaps !
You will find everything you want for downhill, cross-country, winter-hiking, snowshoeing, sledge, lifts ... in the comprehensive and widely used Piste Maps page.
Relations
Pistes can be grouped in route relations, allowing to express the marking color, the name, etc ... Two schemes are currently in used:
- Tag:route=ski
- Tag:route=piste (Similar to the former, but also allows for snowshoeing and winter-hiking)
Particulars
Access
Do you need to know if you have permission to enter with your skis on ? Access (or not) with skis can be express with ski=designated or ski=yes.
Alternatively look at snowshoe=yes or snowshoe=designated.
Resorts
Tag:landuse=winter_sports see also Piste Maps
Site=piste proposed alternative.
Winter sports
All the relevant information for a complete tagging can be found on the links above.
- Downhill or alpine ski
- Crosscountry or nordic ski
- Ski touring
- Winter hiking(aka. piste:type=hike, piste:grooming=classic)
- Snowshoeing (aka. piste:type=hike, piste:grooming=backcountry)
- Sled
- Sleigh
- Ice_skate
- Snow_park
- Ski playground
- Halfpipe
- sport=bobsleigh
- Key:avalanche_transceiver to map AVD training zone and checkpoints
Maps
| Name | Map type | Features |
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| OpenSnowMap | raster | ski pistes (cross-country and downhill), sled, snowparks.. |
| Waymarked trails | raster | ski pistes (cross-country and downhill), sled, snowparks as overlay.. map-link |
| OpenSkiMap | vector | ski pistes, lifts, their length, difficulty and grooming |
| OpenSlopeMap.org | raster | ski pistes (cross-country and downhill) including slope inclination of Alps and Pyrenees |
| XCTrails.org | raster | ski tour, and cross country (XC) trails from OSM with routing functionality for XC trails and additional information from other sources like weather, piste status, elevation profile etc. |
| OpenAndroMaps | vector | Vector maps including winter sports for various Android application |
| OSM Carto | raster | Ski lifts |
| OsmAnd | vector | Ski pistes are contained in vector maps for offline use on Android (via opensnowmap.org) and Locus (use build-in vector map theme Ski or data & theme from openandromaps.org) |
| Trekarta Android application | vector | ski pistes (downhill, nordic, hiking, sled and other), difficulty, grooming style and lightning (skiing activity should be selected in application menu to enable dedicated winter theme) |
| Mobile Atlas Creator | Ski pistes are displayed by several map providers that can be downloaded | |
| Skidea | garmin | Some ski resort maps are available on Garmin image file format |
| Gaia Topo Winter | vector | Ski pistes (nordic, downhill, backcountry), plus winter fat biking trails. Available on Web, iOS, and Android. |
General facilities
General facilities that apply generally to winter sports include shop=ticket (where tickets can be purchased) and amenity=ski_school (where people learn the sport). Also amenity=restaurant, amenity=shelter, tourism=viewpoint, natural=cliff, emergency=mountain_rescue and emergency=first_aid
See also
- WikiProject Piste Maps (A project to map the world's ski resorts)
- Aerialways (tagging ski-lifts etc.)
- shop=ski
- shop=jetski