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Au-Brendler-Boden

2947.1 m · net rise 362.2 m · total ascent 380.2 m · overall 12.3% · evidence quality B (good) · Au · Vorarlberg ·

Shape: sustained — 30% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 506 m.

Found purely from mapping and LiDAR data, and not yet matched against books, race records or lists — it may be well known to locals under a name we've never heard. It was cross-checked against the GIP.at road network, OpenStreetMap and a second terrain model, but a discovery can still be an artifact of the terrain model or the map. Treat it as a well-evidenced hypothesis until someone has ridden it. If you know this road, tell us what you found — photographs, corrections and local knowledge all welcome; the map links below let you scout it first.

≈ Overhead cover (tree canopy or structures) spans 42% of this route — detected by comparing the surface model (DSM, treetops and rooftops) against the terrain model (DTM, bare ground). Under cover the bare-ground model is built from fewer laser returns, so metre-scale readings can wobble; maxima whose window sits in a covered zone are marked ≈ below — less certain — the flag does not say whether the true value is higher or lower. Longer windows average over more clean ground and are steadier.

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

WindowMaximumLocated at
2 m (diagnostic)≈38%1591–1593 munder overhead cover terrain reads 163.9% at 950–952 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)≈36%1591–1594 munder overhead cover terrain reads 135.1% at 949–952 m across a structure — excluded
5 m≈33%1590–1595 munder overhead cover terrain reads 90.6% at 948–953 m across a structure — excluded
10 m≈26%1589–1599 munder overhead cover terrain reads 50.9% at 948–958 m across a structure — excluded
20 m≈20.9%450–470 munder overhead cover terrain reads 32.9% at 948–968 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
25 m≈20.7%445–470 munder overhead cover terrain reads 28.9% at 948–973 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
50 m≈19.8%441–491 munder overhead cover terrain reads 21.7% at 1134–1184 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
100 m≈18.5%391–491 munder overhead cover terrain reads 19.0% at 949–1049 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded

may continue beyond end Extent detection suggests reviewing where this climb starts/ends.

Map

Check this route yourself: Google Maps route via their router · Street View at the base where coverage exists · geojson.io our exact measured line · OpenTopoMap

This climb's data: OCL JSON — the full gradient ladder, quality flags and provenance in the OpenClimb Ladder format.

Surface: GIP.at, Austria's official transport graph records no surface for this road; the map may tell you more.

Measured, not vetted. This page records what the laser record shows about the road's shape — nothing more. Nobody has necessarily ridden or inspected this road for the survey, and a page here is not a recommendation and no guarantee that the road is open, surfaced, rideable or safe. Gates, private sections, missing rights of way and hazards do not show up in elevation data. Check access and conditions on the ground and make your own judgment.

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Route colour = gradient over a 25 m window: <10% 10–20% 20–25% ≥25%

  © OpenStreetMap contributors · topo tiles © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) · vector tiles OpenFreeMap · aerial imagery © basemap.at (CC BY 4.0)

Au-Brendler-Boden LiDAR hillshade map with contours

Profile

The map, profile and gradient chart share one position — move your pointer over them and the marker follows. Colors are the gradient bands; the shaded span is the steepest 25 m. Any 25 m figure is good to about a point either way (why).

Au-Brendler-Boden elevation profile
Au-Brendler-Boden rolling gradient profile
 

Measurement card

ElevationBEV ALS DTM 1 m — ALS DTM Höhenraster 1 m (Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen with the Länder), EPSG:3035
Resolution / CRS1.0 m grid, EPSG:3035; sampled every 1.0 m, bilinear interpolation
TilesE4319-N2688, E4319-N2689, E4320-N2688, E4320-N2689
Road centrelineOpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)
Quality statusevidence quality B; caveated windows: canopy or structure, no bench excluded, structure excluded, texture excluded
AnalysisOCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run texture-at-at-260912, calculated 2026-09-12

Provenance

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  "elevation_crs": "EPSG:3035",
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  "calculated_at": "2026-09-12T01:25:17+00:00",
  "road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
  "road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
  "osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/austria-2026-09-11-batch.osm.pbf",
  "osm_snapshot": "",
  "run_id": "texture-at-at-260912",
  "elevation_provider": "BEV ALS DTM 1 m",
  "elevation_licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) \u2014 \u00a9 BEV / L\u00e4nder, data.gv.at",
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