[Tagging] incline=up_and_down

[Timeo Gut]

There's also the tag incline=up/down which is already used around 400 times.


On 2022-09-26 07:21, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
> tagging incline direction on ways with mtb:scale:uphill is useful
> as otherwise you need high-quality elevation model
> to do routing, and in some cases it may be unavailable at all in 
> sufficient detail
> I wanted to systematically tag mtb scale info in some places to 
> improve routing
> for bicycle trekking.
>
> Some people (like myself) are NOT interested at all in MTB routes but 
> mtb:scale=1
> (or just mtb:scale=0) is still fine for them.
> So mtb:scale=1 mtb:scale:uphill=3 is fine downhill but not uphill for 
> such people,
> but it is hard to check in which way given path goes uphill
>
> This is also recommended by wiki:
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:mtb:scale&uselang=en#mtb:scale:uphill=0-5 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:mtb:scale&uselang=en#mtb:scale:uphill=0-5>
>
> So I wanted to systematically tag missing incline tags, as even 
> without exact
> value it is already valuable info for routing.
>
> But what can be done in cases where there is no real incline but
> path goes through series of up and down hops?
>
> In many cases it is deliberately engineered (legally or not)
> and looks often like https://www.moredirt.com/photo/91766
> https://www.zip06.com/local-news/20220622/rockland-preserve-pump-track-is-officially-a-hit/ 
>
> https://www.bikehinton.com/hinton-bike-park
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>
> Would it be fine to tag incline=up_and_down in such case?
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/incline=up_and_down
> has some minimal use already.
>
> Or maybe incline:variable=yes?
>
> Splitting such way into incline=up / incline=down segments
> is too much for me and I was splitting footway into 20m
> segments to mark changing surface/lit status.
>
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>
> And why I want to tag some incline value? Because I want to do it
> systematically for all such ways.
> See https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/pull/4385
> for the context (I want to also add it to StreetComplete if it will
> be accepted there).
>
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