Traditionally natural rock climbing walls and routes have been developed on a volunteer-basis and openly shared among the climbing community. However, Open-license data set for climbing routes in electronic format is not widely available. OpenBeta Initiative project is building an open source app to make it easier for rock climbers to contribute climbing routes and GPS-coordinates to OpenStreetMap.
Traditionally natural rock climbing walls and routes have been developed on a volunteer-basis and openly shared among the climbing community. However, Open-license data set for climbing routes in electronic format is not widely available. OpenBeta Initiative project is building an app to make it easier for rock climbers to contribute climbing routes and GPS-coordinates to OpenStreetMap. In this lightning talk I will discuss how OpenBeta app uses various open source GIS frameworks and ways to overcome integration challenges with OpenStreetMap.
Project website: https://openbeta.io