OpenClimbing: A Climbing Guide That Treats Open Data as Shared Infrastructure
Climbing Guide as a Shared Infrastructure
OpenClimbing 2.0 turns climbing guides into shared infrastructure by storing route data in OpenStreetMap and photos in Wikimedia Commons, ensuring contributions remain usable even if the app vanishes. With nearly 40,000 routes, offline PDF exports, and features like sun/shade simulation, it demonstrates how a specialized interface can add value without owning the data. The project highlights a broader principle: information about shared physical places should return to shared infrastructure whenever possible.
The application can disappear. The contribution can still be reused elsewhere.
- specproc
Discovered bouldering in my forties, after neglecting my body for years.
Fantastic sport, I'm stronger, fitter, and more flexible than I've ever been. It's fun, social, relatively cheap, and way less of a grind than the gym.
- siren2026
What a cool idea.
Until now all of that information has been kept being gatekeeped applications (mountainproject, theCrag, 8a.nu, ...)
But as usual the real issue will be to get people to use it. The network effect is everything
- spuz
This article seems to be an AI warping of this original article which contains a lot more useful details and screenshots of what the application looks like: https://community.openclimbing.org/d/24-v200-a-big-step-forw...