[talk-au] sac_scale [Was: Deletion of walking tracks/paths]

[Andrew Harvey]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 at 21:34, Tom Brennan <website at ozultimate.com> wrote:

> > If you have better ideas the beauty of OSM is you can tag both, so
> > keep using sac_scale for it's wide support but have a new tag better
> > suited to Australia which data consumers can start opting into.
> It's probably easier, if less correct, to use an existing tag that has
> supporting infrastructure.
>
> But I will follow with some interest what happens on the US Trail Access
> Project - if they decide they need a new trail difficulty measure, I
> imagine that would be more relevant to Australia than the Swiss Alpine
> Club!
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Trail_Access_Project
>
> I haven't thought about an ideal AU track difficulty scale, though I
> imagine anything I come up with would have more than 4 grades!
>
>
> In any case, it would seem to be a useful exercise to try and get as
> many of the optional tags as possible:
> - trail_visibility
> - sac_scale
> - surface (my default preference is "ground")
> - operator (for official/signposted trails)
> - informal (for unofficial trails)
> attached to bushwalking tracks. It would certainly help distinguish
> major tracks from minor tracks and might help a tiny bit in easing land
> managers' concerns.
>

Absolutely, it's easy to look at the map and think it's complete, but delve
deeper into the tags and we are missing a lot.

Tangentially having some sparse Mapillary coverage for walking tracks would
be good too, no need for one every second, but rather capture the track
head sign, guideposts, and then a few every so often to capture the rough
condition of the track.
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