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

[bkil]

Dear Peter Neale and Marcos,

I believe to have already answered your concerns in the above thread.
Could you perhaps share which reasoning you disagree with from there?

Regards

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 1:19 PM Peter Neale via Tagging
<tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> +1
> Sorry, but I see this as a fairly pointless activity, which will consume a great deal of somebody's time to no real advantage.
> IMHO OSM should stick to mapping things that are at least fairly permanent and verifiable.  Shade is far too ephemeral.
> Regards,
> Peter
> On Tuesday, 13 July 2021, 17:21:29 BST, mail at marcos-martinez.net <mail at marcos-martinez.net> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> Although I understand the desired outcome of such a tagging scheme I honestly think it is senseless trying to implement it due a huge amount of parameters each of which can be decisive: Moment of the day, moment of the year, exact location on the globe, height, density and width of all potential shade-providing elements (buildings, trees, street lamps, covered bus stops, hills etc).
> I am aware there is no easy solution but imho it would make more sense to create some kind of 3D model outside of OSM which calculates shade based on existing OSM data instead of adding a tag that is hardly capable of reflecting reality.
> Cheers,
> Marcos