OpenHikingMap

This is the official OpenHikingMap (OHM) map documentation page, a Free Software mapnik 3+ style based on data from the OpenStreetMap project, I (sly) am working on, specifically designed for hikers. It features contour lines, hiking paths, mountain tracks, natural reserves, moutain huts, peaks, viewpoint, springs and so on... (See full list of rendered features further down)

There is a freely accessible raster TMS service using this style, please check the about page of the OpenMaps service for more information.

2026-02-04 News : A new style for OHM was released, based on OpenTopoMap with hiking specific additions (Suggestions and improvement welcome, see down there)

OpenHikingMap
Slippy map:	openmaps.fr
Source code:	https://github.com/sletuffe/OpenHikingMap

History

The first usable version was online around november 2008, as a fork of OpenStreetMap's "Standard mapnik" but developpement of the style has almost stalled between 2013 and 2018. In 2020 there was some minor improvement. In 2024 and 2025 I mainly cleaned the xml code without significant improvements.

But in January 2026, I restarted the style based on OpenTopoMap (the raster mapnik version), while retaining existing POI, track, hiking trail display and many more related to hiking activity.

Can it be used freely in another website/application ?

It was meant for that. However, there are no guarantees : the service might stop any time, or I might block IP or web site if there are too much requests. If you include tiles from tile.openmaps.fr in your project, you must accept and respect the Tile usage policy where you will also find the TMS URL.

Questions/Suggestions/bug reports/contributions

Ideas, and contributions to this style are very welcome, please use the OpenHikingMap Github issue tracker or, if you don't have an account on github, you can use Talk:OpenHikingMap

Warning : If you want to report problems or have questions about the tile.openmaps.fr tile service (outage, slow, unavailable) please use the github OpenMaps tracker

Map Legend

Check the map legend here

• boundary=protected_area is rendererd with a green border for protect_id 1 to 4

• Support for some extra POI with ele=* : tourism=viewpoint, natural=peak, natural=spring, mountain_pass=*, amenity=drinking_water tourism=alpine_hut tourism=wilderness_hut tourism=information place=locality place=isolated_dwelling amenity=parking
• Support for a lot of landcover surfaces ( landuse=meadow/grass/grassland/forest/wood/residential natural=grassland/wetland/bare_rock/scree/heath/scrub/glacier/water/beach)

Contours source

hillshading and elevation color was composed and kindly provided by User:Yvecai from the OpenSnowMap project and based on :

• • ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA
  • SRTM 1 Arc-Second Global
  • EU-DEM: Prroduced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union
  • France – RGE ALTI® 5m © IGN
  • Switzerland – Alti3D © swisstopo
  • US & Canada – NED 1arcsec U.S. Geological Survey
  • Austria – DHM 10m - CC-BY-4.0: Land Kärnten - data.gv.at
  • Italy – Tinitaly 10m – CC BY 4.0 Tarquini S., I. Isola, M. Favalli, A. Battistini, G. Dotta (2023). Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV).
  • Norway - DTM 10 Terrengmodell (UTM33) – CC BY 4.0 Kartverket

Frequently asked Questions

Garmin version ?

No, there isn't. Having a mapnik style is very different from having offline maps in a garmin, I don't plan on maintaining a Garmin version of this map

See also

• List of OSM-based services