Since 6 months I have not written an update over what changed for OpenMTBMaps and VeloMaps – so here we go. Compared to the last changes the updates were much more subtle to notice – and that’s because most of it has been bugfixes on rather rarely happening problems or just updates to OSM keys/values changing.

Visually there have been two main changes – most recently – labels for alpine huts are now again (some Basecamp/GPS device updates changed this) – visual earlier, also for some peaks the labels now show a bit earlier – peaks and alpine huts are still the most important features for orientation in mountainous areas.:

I reworked the naming of hiking, mtb, or cycling routes – now the most important names go first but more route names won’t be dropped if a way is part of two cycle routes for example as here – this was actually really hard to get done nicely by priority – so here the Internation Cycle Netwrok MV – Munich to Venice is first in name, followed by the National Cycle network R3 Innradweg – section Tiroler Unterland. I tried to remove tagging errors/pecularities like the […]