Winter sports

Feature page: Winter sports

Description

For tagging features relevant to winter sports.

Tags

aerialway=cable_car aerialway=chair_lift aerialway=drag_lift

For tagging features relevant to winter sports.

Contents 1 General facilities 2 Types 2.1 Downhill skiing 2.2 Nordic skiing 2.3 Winter hiking 2.4 Other sports 3 Mapping 4 Proposals 5 See also

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, amenity=mountain_rescue and amenity=firstaid

Also: Pistes that share a way with a road. route=ski. Resort boundary.

Types

Downhill skiing

The primary tags for a piste are piste:type=downhill for the run itself which can be a vector, which should run from the top to bottom of the run or a closed area feature. this feature should have a piste:difficulty=* for the grade (which can take the values novice, easy, intermediate, advanced, expert and freerider and extreme) and a reference using ref=number. The piste:grooming=* can be used to indicate how the piste is prepared (classic, mogul , skating, scooter or backcountry). Ski routes can be tagged with a Route relation using route=ski (or more generally route=piste).

ski lifts use a way tagged with aerialway=* taking a value of cable_car, chair_lift, drag_lift, gondola or mixed_lift. Stations on the lift should use nodes tagged as aerialway=station with pylons marked aerialway=pylon. Mountain railways use railway=funicular.

Also: ski=designated or ski=yes

Nordic skiing

Mark the trails with piste:type=nordic and piste:difficulty=* (using the nordic definitions for this term (novice, easy, intermediate, advanced, expert). If the piste:grooming=* tag is used it should normally be set to classic, for prepared routes or backcountry, for unprepared marked routes.

Winter hiking

Use highway=path or highway=footway and tag with snowshow=yes or snowshoe=designated.

Other sports

• piste:type=sleigh
• piste:type=sled
• sport=bobsled
• man_made=piste:halfpipe

Mapping

• OpenPisteMap (a map showing ski-runs)

Proposals

The PisteMap proposal is a comprehensive proposal for tagging ski-runs which was never voted on but is the accepted basis of all current ski tagging.

See also

• WikiProject Piste Maps (A project to map the world's ski resorts)
• Aerialways (tagging ski-lifts etc)