[OSM-talk] OSM for walkers / hikers - getting it going!

[Patrick Kilian]

Hi,

>> So Roy suggests "smoothness" and you suggest "sac_scale". Neither is
>> really definitive.
> I don't get you here. What do you mean by "really definitive"? By
> August 2009 we had 36770 occurencies of sac_scale in our database [1]
> Probably in the meantime it became even more. AFAIK it is the best
> "dedicated" hiking tag. Smoothness is used for different ways and
> streets as well and is often critisized for not beeing "objective" or
> well defined.
As of march 6th we are at 65,375 according to
http://tagstat.hypercube.telascience.org/search.php?query=sac_scale


HTH,
Patrick "Petschge" Kilian