Technical overview
We publish climbing content ("data") in two forms, human-readable and machine-readable.
Two representations of the same data address multiple community needs. Benefits of open access to machine-readabe climbing data:
- Allow independent developers to build on and enrich the existing ecosystem.
- Provide data science students with much needed datasets.
- Increase the efficiency of public research related to climbing.
Climbing route wiki​
Inspired by Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap, the web application (code name OpenTacos) provides the climbing community with a searchable catalog of climbing routes.
- Work-in-progress: Crag finder.
- Planned feature: Collaborative editing.
Live site: https://tacos.openbeta.io
Source code: https://github.com/openbeta/open-tacos
Climbing data​
Climbing datasets in CSV, jsonlines, and Python pickle format.
Source code: https://github.com/openbeta/climbing-data
API service​
A GraphQL-based API that provides data for OpenTacos. We plan to open the API to public at some point in 2022. Be sure to subscribe to the newsletter.
Source code: https://github.com/openbeta/openbeta-graphql