[talk-au] Aust. Walking Track Grading System (AWTGS)

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Tue Feb 8 06:31:38 UTC 2022


On 8/2/22 12:29, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
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> On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 09:50, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
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>     I think either awtgs= or hiking_scale:awtgs= are fine, I'd say
>     just pick one and start a wiki page describing the tag and how
>     it's used.
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> Personally, I like awtgs=*.


I prefer hiking_scale:awtgs= as you know that it is a hiking scale .. 
even if you don't know what awtgs is.

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>     As I raised before I'm still not sure about how it would apply to
>     individual ways vs route relations and if it's only tagged based
>     on officially assigned values or if mappers can evaluate and
>     decide the value on their own.
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> Looking at those guidelines, it's up to each Council / Organisation to 
> work out the value by the "worst" feature of any particular track, so 
> I'd think we could do the same - follow the guidelines then designate 
> this track as "Grade 3"?


+1

The individual ways carry the worst rating for that way ... this would 
allow selection of ways that are within capability by simply removing 
those above the required level.


Routes are a different problem .... while the worst one could be 
included .. what happens if/when things change? Possibly better to leave 
it off? Consider that some routes have alternatives, excursions...
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