[OSM-talk] Tagging climbing routes and scrambles

Sven Grüner sven at schunterscouts.de
Wed Apr 23 10:00:28 BST 2008


Andy Robinson (blackadder) schrieb:
> For a climbing route it's normally the distance of assent that is of
> interest is it not and I guess for most traditional climbing routes this is
> known? Much easier to state the length of the route than the top and bottom
> elevations? Accepted that you might want to converge on an elevation for the
> start of the route as accuracy of the position is improved with time.

This reminds me of the recent discussion on canal locks. There the 
level-difference is also far more important than the absolute elevation.

Unfortunately I couldn't find it on the Wiki but if Gerv chose a generic 
tag it could be reused for this purpose as well.

regards, Sven




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