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

[John Smith]

--- On Sun, 23/8/09, Morten Kjeldgaard <mok at bioxray.au.dk> wrote:
> I realize it wont be possible to compute elevation
> gradients tomorrow, but why not plan ahead? Who would've
> thought a few years ago that the project would be so far
> advanced? Wouldn't you rather have nodes on a way with
> "incline=7%" than "incline=up"? Wouldn't it be better to get
> this data from a database lookup than from manual tagging?

I doubt anyone is disagreeing, however up/down is like tagging highway=road, it's just a rough reference.