Re: [Tagging] Proposal of new tag for technicality of trails for running

2020-05-18 Thread Daniel Westergren
Yeah, the SAC scale (and the CAI scale) are not what I'm looking for here. As mentioned, those are for alpinism and even climbing the highest mountain in Sweden would only take me to level 2. Smoothness is on the other end. According to the example photos most forest trail would be very bad to imp

Re: [Tagging] Proposal of new tag for technicality of trails for running

2020-05-18 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 10:55 AM Volker Schmidt wrote: > There is at least one other scale: cai_scale which is similar in concept to > sac_scale,but is applied to hiking relations. It's increasingly used in Italy. The problem with both of these is that they're _alpinism_ scales, not _hiking_ sca

Re: [Tagging] Proposal of new tag for technicality of trails for running

2020-05-18 Thread Jonathon Rossi
Hi, Fellow trail runner (& MTB rider) here. Obviously there isn't a concrete proposal with any proposed tags, however this sounds very subjective (if not using existing observable tagging) and I think a runner's skill will determine the technicality a lot more than the trail itself. For example,

Re: [Tagging] Proposal of new tag for technicality of trails for running

2020-05-18 Thread Volker Schmidt
There is at least one other scale: cai_scale which is similar in concept to sac_scale,but is applied to hiking relations. It's increasingly used in Italy. On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 16:48, Daniel Westergren wrote: > Hi there, > > I wo

[Tagging] Proposal of new tag for technicality of trails for running

2020-05-18 Thread Daniel Westergren
Hi there, I would like to discuss the possibility of a new tag, trail_technicality, to be used on ways with highway=path. One way this can be used is aid in finding trails to run on and to get suggested routes with tools like Trail Router (www.trailrouter.com), Komoot (www.komoot.com) or Open Rou