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Kaplaweg

2377.1 m · net rise 309.0 m · total ascent 318.2 m · overall 13.0% · evidence quality B (good) · Oberhaag · Steiermark ·

Shape: sustained — 35% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 495 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 76% 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)≈45%1764–1766 munder overhead cover terrain reads 49.2% at 897–899 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)≈40%1764–1767 munder overhead cover terrain reads 47.4% at 896–899 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
5 m≈34%1763–1768 munder overhead cover terrain reads 42.8% at 895–900 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
10 m≈28%608–618 munder overhead cover terrain reads 35.4% at 472–482 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
20 m≈24.7%1731–1751 munder overhead cover terrain reads 30.2% at 470–490 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
25 m≈24.3%1381–1406 munder overhead cover terrain reads 29.7% at 467–492 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
50 m≈22.8%1716–1766 munder overhead cover terrain reads 24.6% at 607–657 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
100 m≈21.7%1377–1477 munder overhead cover terrain reads 22.7% at 460–560 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded

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)

Kaplaweg 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).

Kaplaweg elevation profile
Kaplaweg 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
TilesE4732-N2630, E4732-N2631, E4733-N2630, E4733-N2631, E4733-N2632
Road centrelineOpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)
Quality statusevidence quality B; caveated windows: canopy or structure, no bench excluded
AnalysisOCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run at-run1-260911, calculated 2026-09-11

Provenance

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  "sample_interval_m": 1.0,
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  "smoothing": "none",
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    10.0,
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  "diagnostic_windows_m": [
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  "elevation_crs": "EPSG:3035",
  "elevation_resolution_m": 1.0,
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  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-09-11T07:23:26+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": "at-run1-260911",
  "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",
  "elevation_dataset": "ALS DTM H\u00f6henraster 1 m (Bundesamt f\u00fcr Eich- und Vermessungswesen with the L\u00e4nder), EPSG:3035",
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  ],
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "license": "ODbL-1.0",
  "license_url": "https://howsteep.org/licensing"
}