Snow24 have completed a year long task of updating images for the world's top 300 ski resorts.

The new 10GB photo library contains some 3,000 images, most of them 1 - 10MB file size, 300 dpi print quality images.

For each resort the company has compiled a selection of six quality images, a piste/trail map, a street/base map, a location map showing where the resort is and the resort's logo.

The image library is supported by a searchable database showing image information as well as photographer, supplier and copyright information.

A subset of the database has images sorted thematically so that quality images are available on hundreds of different aspects of winter sports; for example dozens of different lift types or more than 100 different activities offered by ski resorts around the world.

In addition to the new database Snow24 has two other digital libraries compiled between 2000 and 2002. One contains low-rez images from the world's top 300 resorts, another high-rez images from about 1000 ski resorts. Prior to this digital library Snow24 also has extensive resources in the form of a
transparency archive compiled between 1985 and 2000 as well as a library of video in VHS tape and DVD.

The images have all been supplied by the ski resorts for promotional purposes and the copyright remains with the resort and/or the photographer.
They can be used free-of-charge to publicise the resort supplying the images, for other purposes additional permissions/payment may be required. Snow24 charges a small fee towards the cost of collecting/compiling and maintaining the image library and supplying pictures.

A new low-rez image library is now being compiled.