Open source rock climbing

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User ratings

User ratings data extracted from MountainProject

USA climbing routes data

Raw data files are temporarily unavailable. We will republish them in the near future.

File format

Data files are in jsonlines format.

A sample record: (raw file)

{
   "route_name":"Epinephrine",
   "grade":{
      "YDS":"5.9",
      "French":"5c",
      "Ewbanks":"17",
      "UIAA":"VI",
      "ZA":"17",
      "British":"HVS 5a"
   },
   "safety":"",
   "type":{
      "trad":true
   },
   "fa":"Jorge Urioste, Joanne Urioste, Joe Herbst, 1978",
   "description":[
      ""
   ],
   "location":"",
   "protection":[
   ],
   "metadata":{
      "left_right_seq":"23",
      "parent_lnglat":[
         -115.46652,
         36.03518
      ],
      "parent_sector":"Black Velvet Wall",
      "mp_route_id":"105732422",
      "mp_sector_id":"105732162"
   }
}

How to work with the data

We recommend using Jupyter notebook and Pandas to work with the dataset. For a more complete example, check out our Pandas 101 tutorial.

import pandas as pd

# load the zip file directly
# 'lines=True' indicates jsonlines format
df = pd.read_json("/Users/nacho/git/opendata/openbeta-usa-routes-aug-2020.zip", lines=True)

df.sample(5)

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License

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