While this is certainly a very good source (of which I make heavy use in this project), the general quality depends on the frequency of OpenStreetMappers to be found in a given region. “But what about OpenStreetMap?” you may ask. While the former nowadays is any smartphone, the latter is not as easy to come by. To properly plan a tour and to navigate the terrain effortlessly, two things are required: A GPS device, and good maps. While my Media Center blog post makes it clear that watching TV is not among my favorite pastimes, hiking certainly is. The maps and map data shown in the images in this post are based on OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors) and the WebAtlasDE (© GeoBasis-DE / BKG (2020)) by the Geodatenzentrum bes Bundesamtes für Krtographie and Geodäsie in accordance with the usage rights as given at the time of this writing.

November 12 th 2019: Updated Switzerland map sourcesĪpril 2 nd 2021: Improved rendering rulesĪpril 3 rd 2021: WebAtlasDE and SwissTopo no longer need registration → Changed text, mapsources and OruxMaps files Netherlands no longer offer EPSG:3857 (or compatible) for top10nlv2 layer → Needed to remove that Map Data Copyrights October 5 th 2019: Updated rendering rules (some improvements that accumulated over time, especially hiking scales) and NGI Belgium no longer requires registration May 12 th 2019: IGN France now requires proper referer Removed that bit.Īpril 2 nd 2019: Added Grison (Graubünden) And: Text rendering bug in Maperitive seems to be gone. July 9 th 2017: Made the previously experimental rendering the default one. July 2 nd 2017: Added OruxMaps mapsources July 1 st 2017: Added Denmark and the Netherlands This time not so much bla bla, but to skip directly to the tutorial, click here. Also, mapsources for OruxMaps are derived for the various countries.

Using MOBAC and Maperitive, a transparent layer containing POIs, landscape features and elevation information is generated from OSM data and then overlayed on the official maps. In this post I show how to create useful hiking maps by merging OpenStreetMap data with the usually excellent official maps of the cartographic offices of Germany and several other countries.

Swisstopo wms url