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How mountain railroads are updated in OpenStreetMap

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Photo: Tom Malecha

The public map data from OpenStreetMap is becoming increasingly important and forms the basis for most map applications. The data is particularly relevant for mountain bikers. It is therefore important that mountain railroads check their entries and indicate whether they transport bikes.

In addition to the topo data, more and more applications are also drawing additional information from the OpenStreetMap data set. For example, whether a cable car transports bicycles or not. This is important for automated routing, for example, where the correct information is used to add a climbing aid to the route. With the Ride Trail Map, in turn, the mountain railroads with bicycle transport are automatically transferred and displayed on the map.

OpenStreetMap is an open data set that anyone can edit. We therefore recommend that all cable car operators update the metadata for their lifts. The transportation of bicycles can be recorded in different ways. It is important that one of the following information is stored:

  • bicycle=yes
  • aerialway:bicycle=summer
  • aerialway:bicycle=yes

As soon as someone updates data on OpenStreetMap, it is automatically transferred to applications such as Komoot, Outdooractive, Opencyclemap or Ride with a slight time delay and does not have to be entered there separately.

Reference gondola lift with full details of bike transport:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/24278790

 

Further information on the recording of mountain railroads in OpenStreetMap:

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