I agree, well written!

In 2015 I started biking mainly to be able to go further on my mapping adventures. It quickly turned me into a mountain-biker!

Regarding trails that may be a bit overgrown: you can use the trail_visility tag to at least partly take the overgrown bit into account.

Keep up the good work!

This is one of the things I love about OSM. Well, not the urine deflectors as such, but the possibility to work on rather differens things. Not only are there thousands of people mapping the world together, but there is also plenty of room for each of us to map whatever we happen to find interesting. Some map only individual trees, others abandoned buildings, or urine deflectors. Cheers!

When I map an area in Sweden, I usually look at an old national map to add older placenames. I think that even though there is not a large “audience” for this, it is nice to add them as it will make the map more complete and it will help “remembering” these places. I mainly do this on places that used to be old farms/isolated dwellings that are nowadays only a pile of stones, old fields etc.

I know OSM is not a historical map, but as long as the names are used by locals or there is something left “on the ground” from an old house or similar, I think it may be added to the map.

Oh, fantastic, thanks!

Very nice! The interface is clean, intuitive and easy to use.

As a cyclist, there is one feature that I miss in all Openstreetmap-based routing-services and probably most others as well; the ability to select preferred road surface. Among gravel cyclist, many prefer gravel roads over tarmac and it would be fantastistic if this was an option somehow. Though I realize also that many roads in Openstreetmap do not have any surface information.

Anyway; nice work!

Yes, OSM is a non-profit organization, but we do not simply publish the information on “my map”, we convert it into information that is shared using the ODBL-license, which in turn means that anyone, including for-profit companies, can use the data as they see fit.

To be sure, I recommend raising this question on the Swedish OSM maillist or the Swedish OSM Facebook group, so that others that are more experienced in these issues may help us.

No, the above link is not valid for “Min karta”. “Terrängkartan” (and some others) are open data, but in general the aerial imagery in “Min karta” is not open data and you cannot use it for Openstreetmap editing.

Have a look at the bottom of this page: https://www.lantmateriet.se/tips-minkarta for more info.

SRTM data is probably far too coarse in resolution and has too low accuracy. The trail can have lots of small “ups and downs” that are too small to be in any DEM dataset, but still contribute to the trail being hard.

Thanks for the links, I will check them out!

I hope you will be able to report your progress on the OSM diary, it will be an interesting read. Best of luck!

This is important, and rather difficult. I try to add the mtb:scale tag when adding/editing trails, but I find it hard to be consistent. For instance, a path may be rather easy (technically) for the most part, but has a small section that is difficult. Sometimes I then divide the path into sections with different values for “mtb:scale” but I do not want to divide the path into too many sections. It is also hard to remember this when I edit the map after a bike ride; it is easier to remember the overall feel of a whole path.

Would it be possible to use, say, data from Strava (or similar) to calculate the difficulty? Or directly from uploaded gps tracks? Of course one needs to know if each individual trace is from biking or hiking and so on. And it is quite dependent on who is hiking/riding as well.

Regarding visualization, I know that the OsmAnd mobile app can show mtb:scale on the map. I use it quite a lot and agree that it would be useful for other map applications as well.

Excellent, I’ve been looking for a guide like this, thanks!

How difficult is it to change the styling and/or what features that are included in the resulting img-file? For instance, Since I am often using my Garmin in the forest, I do not want the forests to be shown at att, since that is kind of the default state, so removing forests or change the style for them would be very useful…

Very impressive mapping; good work!

Nice post; it’s nice to read about this kind of mapping-adventures.

While I’m comfortable using the mouse for my edits, I think this is really clever. Good work!

I am not sure have the different apps (Strava, Komoot, etc) calculate routes and which OSM-attributes they use. I usually add mtb:scale to the paths I ride, but it is quite difficult to be consistent when deciding on the mtb:scale attribute.

Have you looked at the OSM wiki for the description of smoothness and mtb:scale?

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:smoothness https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:mtb:scale

Anyway, best of luck!

You can set up an Openstreetmap account and then do the edit yourself in a web browser.

Good luck

The reason that the map download took longer than other apps may be that OsmAnd contains more map details and hence the download is larger.

Regarding addresses, OsmAnd only contains Openstreetmap data (plus elevation contours) and so if the adresses are not in Openstreetmap, they will not be found in OsmAnd. So let’s all work towards more complete adresses in Openstreetmap.

Seems to work nicely, good work!

Nice to hear there are other fatbikers out there!

Do you mean that the trails are temporary and only exist during winter?

I did some similar tests around 2013, comparing a smartphone and the Garmin eTrex30. Then I could clearly see that the smartphone did fairly well out in the open, but as soon as I entered a forest it lost accuracy much more than the eTrex did.

Do you have any idea wether your new Garmin outdoor GPS might be better than my old eTrex (from 2012)?