[Tagging] incline=up_and_down

[Yves]

You can't really micromap until you micromap for real ;-)
More seriously, there may be no need to split ways down to the *exact* meter to give the router a sense of the way profile with incline=*.
Yves 

Le 26 septembre 2022 02:21:24 GMT+02:00, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> a écrit :
>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
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>I wanted to systematically tag mtb scale info in some places to improve routing
> for bicycle trekking.
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>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.
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>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
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>This is also recommended by wiki:
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>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:mtb:scale&uselang=en#mtb:scale:uphill=0-5
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>So I wanted to systematically tag missing incline tags, as even without exact
>value it is already valuable info for routing.
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>But what can be done in cases where there is no real incline but 
>path goes through series of up and down hops?
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>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.
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>Or maybe incline:variable=yes?
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>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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