About, sources and rights

Ski Area Factsheets is an independent 37xVentures / Doug Scott directory. It is not OpenSkiMap, not a resort operator, and not RockHopping (Channel Island events).

What we publish

• Named area, country, Wikidata / OSM identifiers
• Discovery-grade coordinates and bounding box from D1 (rounded)
• Stated elevation when the source record includes it
• Mapped activity tags (skiing, snowboarding, …) as source labels, not as current conditions

What we do not publish

• Snow depth, piste status, webcams, avalanche forecasts, or invented weather
• Piste-by-piste pages
• Source-precision OSM polygons (those live in an empty R2 projection table in this snapshot)

Sources (fail closed)

Wikidata

CC0 1.0. Credit: Data from Wikidata — wikidata.org. Terms checked 23 Jul 2026.

OpenStreetMap

ODbL 1.0 share-alike. © OpenStreetMap contributors — copyright. Adapted database must remain ODbL. Terms checked 23 Jul 2026.

Wikimedia Commons photographs

Home and country hubs use one alpine landscape file (Pennine Alps from Mund, Valais). It is captioned as that place, not as a named ski area and not as every country listed. Only three named-area pages (Val d'Isère, Chamonix, Zermatt) show a photograph, and only because the Commons file depicts that place. Other areas have no photo. Author, licence and Commons URL sit on the figure. Not a photo farm.

If either source is not approved and ready in D1 source_registry, this site returns HTTP 503.

Geometry vintage

D1 database snow-sports, schema family activity-places v3, ingest 23 Jul 2026. Centroids/bboxes are discovery evidence, not a substitute for official mapping. Maps (when shown) use OpenStreetMap tiles; a non-map HTML table is always present.

Data from Wikidata (CC0). © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Discovery geometry only — not current access, avalanche, snowpack, or piste status.