[Tagging] Planning route in the shade during hikes either in urban areas or forests

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

I admit I am a bit undecided here. While I share the concerns that this
could easily get out of hand by micromapping pieces of few meters each with
their own shade characteristics, and the additional complexity of changing
shade according to the time of day, I would have just recently wished to
have known before that there was not shade at all to expect on this piece
of road:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/959088638
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/814262792

by looking at OSM, it appears to be "in the forest", (which it generally
is, with nice shade, after these two highlighted pieces (where in OSM the
track begins)), but due to trees along the road being cut, and being
located at a relatively steep hill oriented south, at noon there was no
shade at all for the whole length.

I guess the most shade information will be time dependent (unless there is
never shade), what already makes it so complicated (especially with the
changing altitude throughout the year), that it is hard to imagine that
this will spread widely.

Cheers
Martin
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