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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/8/21 Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Aun Johnsen (via
> Webmail)<skippern at gimnechiske.org> wrote:
>>
>> incline should hold a numeric value, to indicate how steep it is, positive
>> value is up, and negative is down, if steepness isn't trivial, leave it
>> out. If you just want to render a steep road sign, why not find out
>> (roughly) how steep the incline is, and tag it with that numeric value?
>
> Yeah, numeric value is better, but up/down is better than nothing. I
> think both should be allowed and within the scope of the proposal.

if you already have good elevation data you can also tag the nodes with ele=xy
(but nodes can always be moved, so this data might not be most reliable).

cheers,
Martin