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Comment from Nmxosm on 17 December 2019 at 11:47

Hey, this is great.

As I am involved in canoeing in Germany and the Alps, I’d be very interested to have showcases how OpenData (especially OSM) can be used for tour planning. Has this project been extended to cover a larger area? Do you know a good app visualising features that can be interesting to paddlers?

Greetings Nmxosm

Comment from Andreas Binder on 17 December 2019 at 16:56

Hi Nmxosm,

the canoeLayer was only made for demonstration and it is not planned to extend the area, because I have no server which is big enough :-( When I am on a canoe tour I use a garmin device with a selfmade openstreetmap-map looking similar to the canoeLayer-tiles. This works for me, but creating a selfmade garmin-map is no quick or easy task. If you want more information about the garmin-map you could send me a message to my openstreetmap user.

Best regards Andreas

P.S. www.flosm.de/html/Wassersport.html works worldwide and shows some canoe features

Comment from scarapella on 10 May 2026 at 20:30

Hi Andreas,

I came across this post (and your excellent canoeing overlay) by I stumbling across your super well mapped canoe routes in Germany.

I just thought I’d mention a few recent projects which also feature canoe maps.

  • PaddleMap A paddle tripping focused tool that shows canoe access restrictions and paddling POI. It also allows planning/routing on waterways and portages.
  • the map is A general purpose OSM map browser that shows not only canoe access restrictions and paddling POI, but also has a view for type=route + route=canoe relations.
  • OpenTrailMap A general outdoor activity and trails focused tools that includes canoe access restrictions and POI.

Cheers,

scarapella

Comment from Andreas Binder on 14 May 2026 at 18:28

Hi scarapella,

thank you. The canoe routing on https://paddlemap.net/ looks good :-)

Best regards Andreas

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