 Poster: A snowHead
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I couldn't find a google map of all the European ski resorts anywhere online, so I decided to roll my own. It's pretty handy, and also quite illuminating so I thought I'd share it with you guys here. It's centered on Mayrhofen because that's where I just booked a trip to  (first week in Feb, can't wait!). It might be missing a few, but there are about 250 shown on it so it's pretty comprehensive. I also Made a slightly sparser one which just shows the top resorts as ordered by resort height and total number of runs.
Hope you find it useful!
http://duncang.com/skidata/map-all.html
http://duncang.com/skidata/map-top.html
Edit: Some people wanted even more data. So here you go: http://duncang.com/skidata/map-even-more.html (I hope you have a modern computer, there's over 1000 resorts on that one!)
Also: currently doesn't work in internet explorer. I'll take a look at fixing that when I get a chance, but until then might I recommend google's browser? : http://www.google.co.uk/chrome
-Dunk
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Sun 8-01-12 5:01; edited 2 times in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nice idea, hate to nit pick but:
La Rosiere is in the wrong place.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Love it, really good idea.
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Nice one, thanks!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Nice idea, like it. There are a few issues with resorts being in the wrong place or missing, if you;d like feedbacK?
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Gladly! The second one was mostly done by hand so it should be more correct. For the first I'm relying on data from a webpage I found, which is probably less reliable.
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| Snapzzz wrote: |
Nice idea, hate to nit pick but:
La Rosiere is in the wrong place. |
Never mind, could have been somewhere important.
I think its a good idea, never heard of this Austria place before........................
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| Snapzzz wrote: |
Nice idea, hate to nit pick but:
La Rosiere is in the wrong place. |
Fixed it, now it's in the right place (just across the border from La Thuile)
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Avoriaz surely worthy of inclusion?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Alta Badia is a few valleys away from the marker too 
Kaltenbach-Hochfügen is missing (As you're going to Mayrhofen, I recommend that for a day out)
Every resort in Slovenia (Bovec, KG, ...)?
Nice map though. /me start making a list of convenient ones to go to...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| andyph wrote: |
| Avoriaz surely worthy of inclusion? |
Looks like it was missing from the original dataset, probably because Morzine's in there. Have added it now.
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You know it makes sense.
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Ah yes, "comprehensive" might have been a little bit of an overstatement. It has got all the major ones though, as far as I could tell. I was mostly looking at the map of the top resorts as those were the ones I was choosing between. That bergfex site is pretty neat, I hadn't come across it before. They definitely have more comprehensive data than the set I was working from.
Last edited by You know it makes sense. on Sun 8-01-12 5:02; edited 1 time in total
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Tres useful - St Foy ski area is actually St Foy Station, south of St Foy Tarantaise where you have it.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Snapzzz wrote: |
Nice idea, hate to nit pick but:
La Rosiere is in the wrong place. |
Good point. Who cares I'm not sure, but good point all the same.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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How about a suggestion for V2 - add airports. Would be a very handy tool to find a resort near your cheap flight 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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And there are another 284 European resorts there outwith the Alps. I reckon duncanq might have to expand the map. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Why when i click on the links dont they work? It opens a page but with no content???
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Same here 
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Ricklovesthepowder, ditto - I can't get them to load either
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Lou, Megamum, it wouldnt work earlier on when he originally posted.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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| Ricklovesthepowder wrote: |
| Why when i click on the links dont they work? It opens a page but with no content??? |
Might be an internet explorer thing. I'm using google chrome on a mac here.
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I'm getting blocked cookies from a restricted website due to my security settings - I reckon the website needs to dump a cookie on us to use it.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Works for me with firefox, but is a blank page with IE9.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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And 'errors on the webpage might cause it to load incorrectly' running IE 8 here on windows 7
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duncang, Why have you miss pyrenees and the scandinavian resorts,,, 
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You know it makes sense.
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duncang, Pila is in the wrong place it should be just south of Aosta
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Must be snowing hard in all resorts
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Still doesn't work 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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duncang, Like it 
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Les Deux Alpes is shown on the map as "Les"
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'I like Google Earth because you can often make out the ski lifts.........'
Just hit the 'Satellite' button top right.
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Doesn't work with my IE but does with Google Chrome. Anyone know how to add a scale to it, or measure distances?
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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| martinm wrote: |
| Just hit the 'Satellite' button top right. |
I don't mean to say that duncang's efforts aren't worthwhile and I've bookmarked the link because it's good stuff but I've been spoilt by google earth I suppose. I'd asked whether transferring the work to a google earth overlay was very difficult because to me, satellite imagery with spatial information registers its meaning in this wee brain more easily. 
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Great effort!
For completeness (in my local areas), in the SkiWelt: Söll, Scheffau, Going and Brixen are missing.
The Steinplatte (by Waidring) isn't there. Near Kitzbühel you might add Jochberg and Pass Thurn.
In the Hochkönig area, Maria Alm and Mühlbach are worth pins.
Further west Alpbach and Reith im Alpbachtal could be added.
And then in the Zillertal, Hochfügen and Zell am Ziller.
But that's probably enough to be going on with! You may have a job for life here
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FAQ
I've never done anything like it before but guessing you know about this stuff, how difficult would it be to make a Google Earth 'overlay' from your map ? I like Google Earth because you can often make out the ski lifts, the gradients, the natural terrain versus the bulldozer flattened runs in the Alps and even little details like the snow fences in resorts in Scotland etc.