[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - incline up down

[Roy Wallace]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Martin
Koppenhoefer<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/20 Tobias Knerr <osm at tobias-knerr.de>:
>> Proposal for tagging the general direction of a way as incline=up/down:
>>
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/incline_up_down
>
> I personally use the direction of way for steps in the (architectural)
> standard way that the way point upwards, i.e. the bottom of the steps
> is the beginning of the steps-way and the top the end. If we could
> agree to this general definition a separate incline-tag would not be
> neeeded.

What about a one-way way that points downhill? For this, incline=* is
useful. It's also more explicit.