Hiking Map

This wiki page is intended to gather feature ideas for a new OSM Slippy map layer, just like the Cycle Map but then especially for climbers, hikers, tramps, campers, walkers, horseriders and other countryside users.

Contents 1 Ideas and suggestions 2 Map examples 2.1 OpenHikingMap 2.2 Hiking and Riding map 2.3 Hiking.Lonvia.de 2.4 3D hiking maps 3 Related pages

Ideas and suggestions

• Displaying relief contour lines
• Rendering of ways emphasizing paths and various track types, toning down unsuitable roads and paved streets
• Special attention to natural features.
• Special attention to bridges and stairs
• Displaying walking routes (tagged with relations and or tags like highway=path) in different colors
• Icons for mountain, alpine huts, bothies, log cabins, wilderness huts,... see proposals: Proposed_features/Shelter and Proposed_features/Alpine_Hut
• Icons for nice views
• Icons for drinking water, toilets, waste baskets, and so forth.
• Combine raw GPS of the same trail for better accuracy.
• Link to sites and pages describing the details of a trail, information beyond the GPS path.

Map examples

OpenHikingMap

Here is my starting work on a Hiking Map I'm working on sly's hiking map

See details here

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Hiking and Riding map

I have also started work on a topological hiking map (german). Or rather, as I am doing my mapping on horseback, I am working on a map that some day should be suitable for trail riding. But as the requirements for a hiking map are very similar, it should be able to serve that purpose as well. Main requirements are

• contour lines
• hill shading
• emphasis on displaying the trackgrades and paths
• landmarks of all kinds
• hiking routes.

My work on a hiking map originally started with a map for Garmin devices and OSM Composer. For the open layers map I extended Composer to generate matching mapnik styles. This means that a Garmin map will be available that exactly matches the online topo map minus the hill shading.

The basic setup is

• PostGreSQL/PostGIS database
• Contour lines created as shown in HikingBikingMaps
• Hills shading produced as shown in HikingBikingMaps, but with a modified gdal2tiles.py that darkens the tiles and names them in open layer nomenclature
• OSM data downloaded and processed with OSM composer
  • evaluate and add hiking routes and some other information
  • remove all unimportant data
• Two style sheets for Mapnik generated by OSM composer from the Garmin TYP definition, one for the foreground and one for the background
• Rendering done by mapnik as recommended by migurski
  • render background (mostly land use)
  • apply hill shading to background
  • render foreground on top (contours, ways, nodes)

Hiking.Lonvia.de

http://hiking.lonvia.de/

3D hiking maps

3D hiking maps (similar to Google Earth) can be produced with OpenSceneGraph (and SRTM data), even without internet connection.

The screenshot on the right is an extract from a video trailer made to present (and prepare) a very long hike / mapping party along the Via Alpina (Summer 2012).

Related pages

• HikingBikingMaps
• WikiProject_Germany/Wanderwege-Netz
• WikiProject_Belgium/Walking_Routes
• WikiProject_Belgium/Conventions/Walking_Routes
• Proposed_features/Guidepost
• Freemap
• OSM Composer Hiking maps for Garmin devices
• Topo map Germany for Garmin devices
• Custom OpenStreetMap Rendering - OpenTrackMap Experience
• hikingbook.pl
• Hiking around the world
• An 80 days mapping party along the Via Alpina (Summer 2012)