A community-built map of the world's best riding — climbs, water, views, bike-friendly stays — free for anyone to use, build on, and improve.
Today every layer lives in its own silo — one app for climbs, another for routes, another for bike-friendly stays, another for road conditions — and most are closed. Riders stitch a dozen tools together and the data never joins up. The Commons brings the non-personal knowledge into one open place, free to query and build on.
And where good open data already exists, we don't rebuild it — we partner. We link and interoperate with other open-data communities (such as open hospitality networks for places to sleep) instead of walling off our own copy. Open data should join up, not fragment further.
The Commons holds the map: climbs, water, hazards, stays — facts about places, never about people. No identity, no tracking, nothing personal. Built on OpenStreetMap, given back to it, governed by its community.
Climbs, water points, scenic views, heritage POIs, bike-friendly stays, road conditions — open under ODbL.
Your identity and private data — the Commons never collects it. It maps the world, not the rider.
Query it, export it, build on it. That's what makes it a commons.
Arrive somewhere new and see the climbs, views and routes worth your weekend — voted by the riders who know it, refreshed each season. Utility data like water aims for full coverage; the firehose waits in the backlog if you want it all.
Paved, gravel or pavé — drawn so you pick the right bike.
Fountains, taps, refill points — plus café & resupply stops.
Shops, repair stations, e-bike charging.
confirmed ageing — kept fresh.
Stations with bikes-on-train — the gateway to the climbs.
Refuges, shelters & emergency points on exposed terrain.
This list isn't fixed — tell us the practical layer you'd ride for.
Suggest a layer →Length, gradient, surface, the famous ramps.
Bike-friendly stays riders actually used.
Viewpoints, panoramas, the photo spot worth stopping for.
Landmarks, local stories & cycling-heritage sites to ride past.
Loops with quietness, scenery & bike-type suitability.
These layers grow with the community — propose one we haven't mapped yet.
Suggest a layer →A water tap, a road closure, a view worth stopping for — the kind of thing only someone who's there would know.
One tap adds a fact. One vote ranks a region's best. No forms — richness accretes.
The whole community — and anyone building on the open data — gets a better map.