[OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles

Chris Hill chillly809 at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Apr 17 16:20:32 BST 2008


> 
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Chris Hill wrote:
> 
> > The only person likely to tag climbing routes is someone who 
> > understands climbing routes ;-)
> 
> What about someone just trying to interpret the data stored in OSM's 
> database?  It should be obvious what the data is, without having to start 
> looking stuff up on the wiki (where it may not even be documented).
> 
> > plain, sensible tags +1
> 
> Does "french" count as a sensible tag now?
> 
Yes, because tags are applied to a node or a way and collectively the tags make sense for that node or way. 

This is, however, the *Open* Streetmap and you are free to tag climbing routes anyway you want to.  

Cheers, Chris




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