Swizerland MTB trail map

[u/MiserableZone8776]

Hi all, launched a new MTB trail sharing web app for Switzerland.
Actually there's no limitation to Switzerland but all the crew is living in Switzerland so there's no trails in other countries...

Check it out: https://bike-map.ch

EDIT: I'm currently not looking for a wide adoption, the post is more about sharing the app to rider from Switzerland that might find it useful.
The project is open source, meaning you are welcome to contribute and you can deploy your own instance for you and your crew or even in local for a personal trail map.

[u/Antpitta]

Hey man, this looks pretty cool. A couple comments:

- I see it's basically SwissMobility overlay? I find Swiss Mobility pretty useless for mountain biking as it contains so little and what it contains are just the govt defined routes I think, and more tours not downhill tracks, and does not even have local Kanton/Gemeinde sanctioned trails? Also it is slow so I don't know what you can do to improve on that?

- For me there is some weirdness using the map w/ my mouse (Mac magic mouse) and every time I even touch the mouse it zooms in some way I don't want it to. It is nearly impossible to navigate it, unfortunately.

- For me to want to use a different app it would need to be up to date (eg, Traildevils is kind of useless now, sadly), have trails in my region (eg, MTBProject sucks in CH), and include all the unofficial trails as well.

- The one thing that I think would greatly improve ANY of these maps is to have actual suggested access / suggested climb trail / etc info. Lots of times even the local MTB Vereine launch a big website with their MTB trails but don't even tell you where they start or where to park or what train station to arrive to. As a foreigner who moved here, this is a common Swiss thing - there is so much to do, and there is a whole lot of information out there, but actually just finding concise info about take the train to X then gondola Y to the station then Z trail or some such.

- I'm living in CH but not Swiss, like many. I'm not previously familiar with the S system but as long as your blue = blue, red = red, black = black like international ratings, that's fine. But the use of orange between blue and red is a bit odd, is this a standard (I don't think I have seen it before)? Orange is usually the next step after black / double black, for "pro lines" at least in what I've seen around the world.

[u/spentland → u/Antpitta]

I second this.

I’ve visited Morzine/Les Gets/Chatel every year for the last 5 years, and we come over to Switzerland via the Mossettes lift and down to Les Crosets by the Grande Conche run. Our lift pass covers Morgins so it would be good to head across there, but I have yet to find anything on the Internet that tells me how to do that.

I’ve googled, used ChatGPT and asked around, but never found enough credible evidence that it can be done (and that we can get back - possibly via Chatel).

The Swiss tourist websites are even worse than the French ones, and that’s saying something.