[OSM-talk] OpenPisteMap: Cross Country Ski Trails.

[Simon Wood]

Hi Steve and all,

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:52:26 +0000 (GMT)
Steve Hill <steve at nexusuk.org> wrote:

>  A non-subjective "incline=30%" type tag would 
> be better, and matches up with what is often used on highways: 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Incline
> 

I'm not sure that putting an absolute value on it would be possible for cross country, but reusing the same tag would make sense. So I'll split the way for the steep sections and use 'incline=yes' with the way facing downhill to mark the sections where you are definately going to have to herringbone up the hill.

This will allow a certain amount of subjective-ness to be represented on a map.

With the SRTM data I think that the resolution of the data would not be detailed enough to detect/show these features as the are likely to be pretty short/small (unlike those for alpine/downhill skiing).

Cheers,
Mungewell.