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Hiking and Bridlemap
General
The goal of this project is to create a topographic Hiking and Bridlemap. The map consist of several parts: An online map with GPX route editor for planning tours and a matching Garmin map for the trip, that exactly corresponds to the large map (minus the hill shading). For maintenance of the OSM data there are calls to the OSM editors out of the map and a JOSM style that matches the design of the hiking map.
As I am mapping on horseback, the main focus is on a topographical map suitable for trail riding. As this is very close to a hiking map, it should also work well for hikers and mountain bikers. The design is inspired by common German hiking maps with elevation contour lines, hill shading and marked hiking routes. But it shows more details and distinguishes different kinds of tracks and trails as well as minor landmarks like wayside crosses, prominent trees or hunting stands. It emphasizes obstacles like fences, walls, gates, cattle grids and stairs. It also shows fords and watering places for animals. Cycleways are only included for completeness as there already is a specialized cycle map. Due to the interpolated elevation lines, the map is not really suitable for planning mountain tours.
The map currently covers Germany, Austria, Switzerland and parts of northern Italy. It is being continuously expanded, if you have suggestions, please put them down in the table on the German page. The map already tries to show many interesting and helpful details, but if you note that something is missing from the rendering rules, please drop me a note. There is a Directory (German) of all hiking routes shown in the map. There is already an impressive number of hiking routes mapped in OSM, but many are still tagged incompletely as shown in the Waiting list (German).
If you want to help with developing this map or if you need an extension or update for "your" area, you are very welcome. If you are missing some objects, note weird features on the map or have suggestions for improvements, please let me know on the discussion page.
News
- The new map is online. Major changes are
- a new composition technique that provides better colors, contour lines and hill shading
- zoom levels 16-18 available
- weekly updates of the whole map
- Multilingual map key in German, English and Italian
Map Coverage
The map currently covers Germany, Austria and Switzerland completely and parts of northern Italy. It is continously being extended. If you have suggestions, please put them down in the main table on the German page as that one is monitored.
English page
I have started this English page as the map is leaving the German language area as a means to provide news and exchange feedback. So the rest of the page is still missing. But maybe someone feels inspired? :-)
