How contributing actually works on Altigraphs — what you can change, what's calculated for you, and what happens when you save.
There's no draft or approval queue — when you save a change to a climb's details or route, it publishes right away. That's exactly why every edit is tracked — a full, field-by-field history is kept on each climb's page, and nothing you change is ever silently lost, even if it's later corrected.
You won't find a field to type in a climb's category or difficulty score — both are calculated automatically from its length, average gradient, and elevation profile, using the same formula for every climb on the site. If a category looks wrong, the fix is correcting the underlying route or gradient data, not requesting a manual override.
A climb's country, region, and province aren't fields you fill in — they're resolved automatically from wherever you drew or imported the route, and shown read-only on the Details step. If a geocode looks wrong, there's currently no self-service fix — contact us and we'll take a look.
Changing a climb's details or route through the edit flow updates its actual data and is recorded in its history. Leaving a rider note — how many times you've ridden it, when, what it's like — adds your own experience alongside the climb without touching its data. Reporting an error flags something for someone else to look into without changing anything yourself. Use whichever fits what you actually want to happen.
A GPS or barometric reading taken inside a tunnel reflects the mountain above it, not the road surface. If a climb passes through one, edit its route using the tunnel picker rather than the general elevation tools, so the profile stays correct on both sides of the portal.
Photos should actually show the climb — the road, the summit, the views along the way. Files up to 8 MB in JPEG, PNG, or WebP are accepted, with an optional caption and a location pin if you know roughly where on the climb it was taken.
You can delete a climb outright if you're still the only person who has ever edited it since it was published. Once someone else has made a change, there's no self-service delete button — if it genuinely needs to come down, contact us rather than trying to edit around it.
Every climb's page shows who's contributed to it, and its full edit history is public. Some contributors carry a trusted editor badge — a mark of an established track record, not a special permission — but it changes nothing about how edits work. Your username is what your work is credited to, exactly as described in the Terms of Use.
Something not covered here, or a location that looks wrong? Contact us