Hangneigung

Today's GotW introduces a tool that is attached to the ski poles as a sticker and enables precise and quick measurement of the slope inclination. The sticker set is called PoleClinometer and Clinopole. The former is already sold in the USA, the latter is an invention from Finland.

The tour planning module of the White Risk app offers flexible options for planning ski tour routes with the help of precise map material. Slope gradient layers and the automatic recognition of key points offer practical assistance here. Other information can also be displayed, such as wildlife protection zones.

The OpenSlopeMap project, founded by skiing software developers Peter Schnappauf and Reini Riedl, offers freely accessible online slope maps for the Alpine region on a non-commercial basis. There are some interesting new features for the new season:

Two skiing software developers were dissatisfied with the range of free slope maps available online and created their own map without further ado. The OpenSlopeMap covers Austria, South Tyrol, Bavaria and Slovenia, can be used online and offline and is free of charge. Developer Peter Schnappauf on the OpenSlopeMap project: