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<div dir="auto">tagging incline direction on ways with mtb:scale:uphill is useful<br></div><div>as otherwise you need high-quality elevation model<br></div><div dir="auto">to do routing, and in some cases it may be unavailable at all in sufficient detail<br></div><p dir="auto"></p><div>I wanted to systematically tag mtb scale info in some places to improve routing<br></div><div> for bicycle trekking.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>Some people (like myself) are NOT interested at all in MTB routes but mtb:scale=1<br></div><div dir="auto">(or just mtb:scale=0) is still fine for them.<br></div><p></p><p dir="auto"></p><div>So mtb:scale=1 mtb:scale:uphill=3 is fine downhill but not uphill for such people,<br></div><div> but it is hard to check in which way given path goes uphill<br></div><p></p><p dir="auto">This is also recommended by wiki:<br></p><div dir="auto"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:mtb:scale&uselang=en#mtb:scale:uphill=0-5" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:mtb:scale&uselang=en#mtb:scale:uphill=0-5</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So I wanted to systematically tag missing incline tags, as even without exact<br></div><div dir="auto">value it is already valuable info for routing.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But what can be done in cases where there is no real incline but <br></div><div dir="auto">path goes through series of up and down hops?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In many cases it is deliberately engineered (legally or not)<br></div><div dir="auto">and looks often like <a href="https://www.moredirt.com/photo/91766">https://www.moredirt.com/photo/91766</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.zip06.com/local-news/20220622/rockland-preserve-pump-track-is-officially-a-hit/">https://www.zip06.com/local-news/20220622/rockland-preserve-pump-track-is-officially-a-hit/</a> <br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.bikehinton.com/hinton-bike-park">https://www.bikehinton.com/hinton-bike-park</a><br></div><div dir="auto">-------------<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Would it be fine to tag incline=up_and_down in such case?<br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/incline=up_and_down">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/incline=up_and_down</a><br></div><div dir="auto">has some minimal use already.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Or maybe incline:variable=yes?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Splitting such way into incline=up / incline=down segments<br></div><div dir="auto">is too much for me and I was splitting footway into 20m<br></div><div dir="auto">segments to mark changing surface/lit status.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-------------<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And why I want to tag some incline value? Because I want to do it<br></div><div dir="auto">systematically for all such ways.<br></div><div dir="auto">See <a href="https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/pull/4385">https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/pull/4385</a><br></div><div dir="auto">for the context (I want to also add it to StreetComplete if it will<br></div><div dir="auto">be accepted there).<br></div> </body>
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