[OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles

[Steve Hill]

There isn't much guidance on how the sport=climbing tag should be used 
when dealing with outdoor features. What exactly should be tagged with 
sport=climbing? Possibilities include:

  * The crag (probably a node, or maybe a way following a cliff, or an 
area)
  * The start locations of individual routes (nodes)

Marking individual routes may be tricky in some cases (e.g. if they are 
close together or share the same start location), but could be very useful 
when routes are more spread-out. There are also potentially useful pieces 
of information about the routes which could be recorded, such as the 
grades.

Also, is tagging a scramble as "scramble=Grade 1", etc. the recommended 
way of doing it?  Crib Goch seems to be tagged like that (and T at H renders 
it), but there is no mention of it in the wiki:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.07684&lon=-4.05342&zoom=16&layers=0BFT

  - Steve
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