Altigraphs

Altigraphs blends outside data providers with what riders contribute directly. This page lists where each piece of a climb's page actually comes from, and what credit is owed for it.

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Maps & geocoding

MapTiler is the primary provider behind the maps, address search, and elevation lookups used throughout the site. Mapbox is used narrowly for one thing MapTiler doesn't offer — road-snapping when drawing a route from scratch in the add-climb wizard.

02

Road surface type

Each climb segment's surface (paved, unpaved, cobblestone) is detected automatically from OpenStreetMap data, fetched through a single OpenRouteService Directions request per import or route edit.

03

Location & range boundaries

Country, region, and province boundaries come from geoBoundaries. Mountain range boundaries are matched from OpenStreetMap via Nominatim; a handful of ranges Nominatim can't resolve are matched instead from the GMBA Mountain Inventory.

04

Live weather

The "At the summit right now" card on a climb's page pulls current conditions from Open-Meteo, cached briefly rather than fetched on every page view.

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Climb data & photos

Every climb's stats, notes, and photos are contributed and corrected by riders, and published under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license, credited to the usernames who built it.

Mountain range photography

  • The Alps — Photo: Michael Kuhn / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Apennines — Photo: Andrej / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Ardennes — Photo: FrDr / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Black Forest — Photo: Iris Kuerschner / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Cantabrian Mountains — Photo: Eduardo Diez Viñuela / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Dolomites — Photo: Wolfgang Moroder / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Massif Central — Photo: Marie-Lan Taÿ Pamart / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
  • Picos de Europa — Photo: Siurle / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Pyrenees — Photo: Moahim / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Sierra de Guadarrama — Photo: Vilanchelo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Sila — Photo: Beppeveltri / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Vercors Massif — Photo: Jeanne Menjoulet / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
  • Vosges — Photo: francois from Strasbourg, france / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

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