Saturday, July 04, 2026

Open Data plus Busy Claude = Nice Maps

Swiss topographic maps are famous for their beauty. Always wanted those for my biking tours. Recently I had a couple of hours to chat with Claude about this. Up he came with:
  • topovert turning the swisstopo vector map into an .img you can throw at your Garmin devices. Bit exploratory still. You'll have to install a bit of stuff - I think Claude put that into the readme.
  • A swisstopo BRouter overlay to do your bike tour planning
  • with the background of the pretty Landeskarte (or an aerial map).
Programming is becoming quite a different beast right now.