Yes – a few months ago now but they do! Quite a lot of people follow EuroVelo routes and most online maps don’t show the numbers, so after a few experiences getting lost on the Continent, I thought they were worth adding…

It is a great addition, very useful

Richard, after a recent 2000km ride through Europe I found quite a few inaccuracies in Eurovelo routes as marked on OSM. Some were severe. e.g. nonexistent ferries requiring big backtracks. Seems people have added EV routes to OSM when they were just proposed rather than implemented.

I would like to help in correcting these where possible, and have tried to join the Eurovelo group on FaceBook to find out more, but my request to join the group has been pending for quite a while.

Hi Chris – I’m guessing yours was the posting I spotted the other day on the OSM forum!

My impression (might be wrong) is that a handful of keen people made a big effort to get the EuroVelo routes into OSM a few years ago, but haven’t necessarily kept them updated since.

After half an hour of hacking, I’ve just managed to get the EuroVelo routes from their (eurovelo.com) website as a big GeoJSON file. I’ve uploaded this to https://eu.cycle.travel/eurovelo.geojson.

There are lots of programs that will read GeoJSON files, but perhaps the easiest is to use geojson.io: download the file, go to geojson.io, click ‘Open > File’, and select the downloaded file. If you want to see it on a cycle.travel map background (to show the existing route mapping), go to ‘Meta > Add map layer’, then enter https://eu.cycle.travel/topoclassical_eu/{z}/{x}/{y}.png .

You can then click on any route segment to see its EuroVelo route status, although this seems to be a bit partial/erratic.

Is that of any use? Happy to help more if I can!

That's a huge help, thanks. If you can provide this sort of assistance with the necessary tools I don't mind doing the legwork. The first image hereshows the big incorrect section of EV7 south of Prague. The main road west of the river near the top of this snip is horrible to ride on; the ferry across the lake near the bottom doesn't exist any more (or maybe only in July/August).

I need a bit more help: the second snip here

shows that the json file is very low-resolution (I understand why!) but makes it difficult to see ( in some places) which track may be the correct/intended route. Are there also GPX (or json) files of each separate EV but at a higher resolution?

Maybe easier to continue this discussion via email: [email protected]

I think this is the ferry: https://lodnidopravaslapy.cz . It looks like it runs on Saturdays and Sundays only. I’ve just added the website URL to the ferry ways in OSM so that cycle.travel will present it as a link after the next map update.

I’ve extracted/mangled a higher resolution version on the EuroVelo site: https://eu.cycle.travel/eurovelo_7.geojson . Still not perfect but should be good enough, I think.

[email protected] if you want to follow up by email!