Open Peaks

An open source initiative focused on the geographic data of mountains. See the index of all the mountains (updated daily).

GeoJSON

All peak data is stored in geo-json. For more information visit: http://geojson.org/.

Finding a Mountain/Peak

The directory structure for finding peaks is:

:continent/:country?/:state?/:name.geojson

Contributing

Simply edit/add the mountains geojson file in the proper directory and submit a pull request. Acceptable fields include:

field	description	required/options
type	use "Feature"
geometry.coordinates	[longitude, latitude] of the mountain	required
geometry.type	use "Point"	required
properties.name	name of the mountain	required
properties.latitude	latitude of the mountain	required
properties.longitude	longitude of the mountain	required
properties.feet	height of the mountain in feet	required
properties.meters	height of the mountain in meters	required
properties.continent	continent of mountain	required
properties.countries	countries mountain is in	required
properties.regions	regions/ranges mountain is in	required
properties.marker-symbol	use "triangle"	required
properties.marker-size	see sizes	required
properties.state	state of mountain	optional

Sizes

Use the following for marker sizes:

height	size
small	< 600m
medium	< 4200m
large	> 4200

Questions / Complaints ?

Open a Github issue or email me at jason@waldrip.net.