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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/8/22 Mike Harris <mikh43 at googlemail.com>:
> I'm with Martin on this one - up/down is better than nothing and is useful
> in its own right on steps for example.

actually I wrote that it's IMHO not needed for steps: I draw them from
down to up, they already have their direction. This is IMHO the
"natural" way of doing it (as it is done like this worldwide in
architecture, and I'm an architect ;-) ). I don't see much of a
benefit for ways either, but I agree that ele-nodes have their own
problems, and therefore the incline-tag on ways could at least
indicate some kind of inclination (probably you could use this in
hilly city centres, where SRTM is not sufficient, to avoid
inclinations on bike or something like this).

cheers,
Martin