The winter activities trail network
Our digital trail network provides you with a valuable tool for planning winter routes. The network can be viewed as an additional layer on every map to show an overview of all your favorite winter sports activities.
The Digital Winter Activities Trail Network
Our digital winter activities trail network seeks to create a complete, virtual image of all trails that have been signposted. When creating our Winter Layer for the Outdooractive map, we work closely with our tourism partners and also utilize the large variety of routes entered on our platform by our Community members.
Ski runs, sledding slopes and cross-country trails on the map
The network for winter activities consists of a large number of individual sections. This includes classic winter hiking routes, but also cross-country trails, ski runs and routes for ski touring and snowshoe hiking.
In order to map these conditions as realistically and clearly as possible on the digital map, we display the trails in different ways:
- Ski runs (thick, blue, red and black lines for for runs of varying levels of difficulty)
- Backcountry Skiing (long dashed orange lines)
- Ski touring (long dashed, light blue lines)
- Snowshoeing (short dashed, light blue lines with snowshoe walker symbol)
- Winter hiking (solid purple lines with winter hiker symbol)
- Sledding (solid, dark blue lines with sledge symbol)
- Cross-country skiing (double, blue, red and black lines for trails of varying levels of difficulty)
We also use activity-specific icons to help make things clearer and with regards to cross-country ski trails, there are different symbols to show whether the trail has been groomed for classic cross-country skiers as well as skaters.
On which snippets is the winter activities trail network used?
The winter activities trail network can be added as an additional layer on the map. This allows you to view all officially marked trails, tracks, and slopes at a glance. The system includes a dedicated network for each winter activity.
In the Route Planner, the trail network serves as a guide for planning your route. Automatic routing is not available for winter activities. Therefore, for winter activities, the default setting in the Route Planner disables the "Follow Paths" planning function, and routes are automatically planned using straight-line navigation.
An exception is the activity "Winter Hiking," where a route suggestion is automatically generated based on the hiking trail network.
