[Tagging] incline=up_and_down
Mateusz Konieczny
matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Mon Sep 26 03:56:08 UTC 2022
Oh, thanks for spotting!
This also works fine! And has some decent use already.
(and incline=up;down is not the best idea as it
- semantically applies rather when both apply at once across entire object
- is often produced by buggy editors merging ways with incline=up
and incline=down
)
Sep 26, 2022, 02:34 by timeo.gut at hotmail.com:
> 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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