Ski Area FactsheetsCredentialed source
Copernicus Climate Data Store
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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What we do not publish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.
Condition and environment sources
The unified importer exposes only its small provenance/state records here. Raw source files stay private in R2. Imported does not mean joined, current for a ski area, or safe to use as a forecast.
| Official feed | R2 state | Use on this site | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network Daily | Imported to R2 Version 12 Aug 2026 · 12.7 GB · completed 13 Aug 2026 |
Approved raw historical daily station archive. Feed availability is shown; no ski-area/station join or current condition value is published yet. | US federal open data / public domain |
| Environment Agency flood-monitoring stations | Imported to R2 Version 9 Oct 2026 · 4.71 MB · completed 9 Oct 2026 |
England-only station directory. Retained for provenance but not treated as snow, lift or avalanche evidence. | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
| Environment Agency current floods | Imported to R2 Version 9 Oct 2026 · 10.2 KB · completed 9 Oct 2026 |
England-only flood notices. Not joined to ski areas and not a resort-condition or safety service. | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
| Environment Agency catchment classifications | Imported to R2 Version 23 Aug 2026 · 533.3 MB · completed 23 Aug 2026 |
England water-quality planning evidence. Assigned by the unified environment task but out of scope for ski-area conditions. | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
Gated sources
Rights-controlled content
Commercial manuals, prices, reviews and availability
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Manuals, reviews, prices, availability, warranties and catalogues are not automatically open for bulk copying. Gate checked 26 Aug 2026.
Read the condition-data publication rule.
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.