Route Click Statistics Dataset (RCSD)
1. Introduction
Since 2015 Skitourenguru records information each time a user clicks on a route of Skitourenguru. The follwing
attributes are recorded:
-
An identifier id that specifies which route was clicked. This identifier points to many other
route attributes (like difficulty, elevation gain, length, ascent time). As geometries of the routes are known
its possible to calculate other attributes.
- The name of the route collection (like Switzerland or Alps)
-
A timeStamp about the click time. The timestamp can be used to link to the avalanche forecast
or other time depending data (like meteo data).
- The avalanche risk indicator of the route.
-
A
Globally unique identifier (GUID)
about the user. Depending on the browser settings of the user a specific user may have many GUID's. Due to
privacy issues the IP address is not delivered.
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The User-Agent. With the help of the
User-Agent information about the used device, browser and operating system can be deduced. Due to privacy issues
the IP address is not delivered.
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The public IP-Address of the user. Due to privacy issues the IP address is not delivered.
- The Referer.
- The detected or selected language.
No other information about the users is known. Neither Skitourenguru can or wants to gain more knowledge about the
users.
2. License restrictions
Ownership of RCSD
- Skitourenguru is the data owner of RCSD.
- RCSD relies partly on other data, that may have other data owners.
Usage Conditions
- Usage of RCSD is only allowed with the consent of Skitourenguru and in cooperation with Skitourenguru.
- RCSD may only be passed on with the explicit consent of Skitourenguru.
- The publication of knowledge derived from RCSD is only allowed in cooperation with Skitourenguru.
3. Proposals
Do you want to derive knowledge from the RCSD? Send a proposal to Skitouranguru (E-Mail under
Impressum). Take into account, that your proposal must contribute to the
avalanche accident prevention of the backcountry skier comunity.
4. Download
For privacy reasons ip, userAgent and guid are not contained in
the dataset. The password for the zip file is the name of the project (first letter is upper case).
5. Joining route properties
You can download a
geojso file about all current
routes of Skitourenguru. This is a point layer with the EPSG=3857 (identical to 900913). The point is located
close to the end of the route.
GeoJson of Skitourenguru Ski Routes
This file contains properties about the routes:
- id: route identifier
- startEle: start elevation
- stopEle: stop elevation
- ele: elavation gain
- len: route length
- time: ascent time in minutes
- diff: manual difficulty grade
- ad: automatic difficulty grade
- pop: popularity of the route
- wild: distance to next protected area in meters
- sri: standard risk rating indicators for ten classical avalanche forecasts
You can join the route properties by the route id. However that works only for
the collection="Alps". For all other collections you have to calculate the correct id (in the new
generalized scheme) by applying the method getAlpsRouteIdentifier() defined in the
C# Class RouteIdentifiers.cs before you can
join the route properties. Joining the properties may not suceed in all cases as route id's were not always
constant over time.
You can join also the line geometry of the routes (including elevations and crux points)
by downloading a gpx file. The id must be padded with the character '0' to 6 digits.
An example for the route with id=68102:
Alps_ID068102.gpx
