Additional maps and overlays for https://bikerouter.de (or https://gpx.studio) that highlight singletrails for mountain biking. They can be added as custom base maps and overlays.
https://bikerouter.de and https://gpx.studio are tremendously useful tools to prepare GPX tracks for cycling adventures. However, I was never happy with the available options of maps and overlays highlighting singletrails for mountain biking that would let me choose the best singletrails according to my bike riding skills. Being used to the swiss map style I was looking for something that looked like a swisstop map with simple highlights of singletrails from green to black (just like ski pistes) according to their difficulites.
The singletrail map is served to e.g. https://bikerouter.de as .png tiles by a map tile server that is running on your local computer.
https://bikerouter.de will automatically load the .png tiles as needed when scrolling the map.
In order to run this project locally you need git as well as docker and docker-compose installed on your computer.
Additionally, an .mbtiles file containing the map data must be generated first for the desired area.
Use my openmaptiles-singletrailmap project to create an .mbtiles
file for the desired area. For example to create suitable data for the area of the whole alps, you would run
./quickstart.sh europe/alpsin that project. The resulting tiles.mbtiles file must then be copied to this project's data folder.
- Clone the project to your local computer:
git clone https://github.com/joe-akeem/singletrail-tiles.git; cd singletrail-tiles- Copy the
tiles.mbtilesfile (see above):
mkdir data; cp ../openmaptiles-singletrailmap/data/tiles.mbtiles data- Run the tile server:
docker-compose upIn order to verify that the tile server is running properly visit http://localhost:8080/. You should be able to inspect the data as well as a list of map styles.
From the main page at http://localhost:8080/ you can navigate to the TileJSON definitions of each style. Each style has
an individual URL at which the map tiles are served. They look something like http://localhost:8080/styles/mtb/{z}/{x}/{y}.png.
These URLs are the ones https://bikerouter.de (or https://gpx.studio) needs to request the map tiles depending on the currently displayed section of the map.
Here is a list of the provided styles along with the URLs that are relevant to https://bikerouter.de and https://gpx.studio:
| Style | Description | Tiles URL |
|---|---|---|
| mtb | A map style that can be used as an overlay to highlight the paths on the map that have an mtb_scale tag according to OSM. The paths are highlighted using different colors depending on the riding difficulty (green for S0, blue for S1 etc.) |
http://localhost:8080/styles/mtb/{z}/{x}/{y}.png |
| mtb_potential | A map style that can be used as an overlay to highlight the paths on the map that might be suitable for MTB riding but that don't have an mtb_scale tag according to OSM. The paths are highlighted using different colors depending on the how likely they are suited (based on some other tags like hiking difficulty etc. Orange means higher potential than yellow) |
http://localhost:8080/styles/mtb_potential/{z}/{x}/{y}.png |
| singletrailmap | A map that can be used as a base map. It is a complete map style that is similar to the swisstopo style and that has additionally the singletrails highlighted as in the mtbstyle above. This map can be combined with other overlays in gpx.studio. |
http://localhost:8080/styles/singletrailmap/{z}/{x}/{y}.png |
The map layers can be added to e.g. https://bikerouter.de as custom layers. Make sure you choose the right layer type. Overlay
is meaningful for the mtband mtb_potential styles while singletrailmap is more suitable as Basemap.
Once the custom layers have been added in https://bikerouter.de or https://gpx.studio, they can be randomly mixed with the already existing layers.
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