Information that expires is the kind that does the most damage: an opening date a year out of date, a swimming ban nobody updated, a lift listed as running in November. It is also the kind almost nobody keeps current, because it costs work and does not show.
We keep it apart from the rest of the site and treat it as data: each entry has a source, a date it was observed, a date we checked it and an expiry. Once the expiry passes the figure does not disappear and is not passed off as current: it stays visible as the last known value.
How it works
Part of it comes from open data portals, above all the South Tyrol Open Data Hub, which publishes in real time but keeps no history: the day by day series is ours. Part of it we check by hand against official sources, and where a rule is not published in a quotable form we phone the body that enforces it.
Each type of figure has its own validity, because each changes at its own pace: a road status is good for a day, a lift season for thirty, a swimming rule for six months. Past that it needs rechecking, and until it is rechecked it stays labelled as old.
Checks we make ourselves are signed by the editorial team. When a figure carries a person’s name, that person is standing behind it with a verifiable biography.
The Passo Sella car park series
Days the car park filled up, month by month
What time it fills up, on full days
The dataset, to reuse
All current data is published in an open format, with the source and the check date next to every entry. Anyone can reuse it, as long as they credit us: it is a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
Download the data as JSON CC BY 4.0 licence
Snow, measured every day
Since 7 October 2026 we record the depth of snow on the ground at the Province of Bolzano stations that sit in the valleys we cover: centimetres, altitude and the change on the week before. The portal only publishes the current value; the history is ours.
How much snow there is in the Dolomites
What we wrote with it
The data does not stay in a file: it is where the pieces nobody else can write come from, because backing them up takes months of recording.