Hi everybody, I propose a classification scheme for hiking trails.
Rationale: - Especially for mountain trails, it is crucial to know wether a trail can be done in sneakers or wether you need ice axe and climbing irons. - Since Google Maps and the like are pretty unusable for hiking (because they denote only very few trails), this is a region where OSM can be of great value soon and for a long time. - Many mountaineers already utilize GPSs. It would be great to win as many of them as possible as contributers to OSM. As far as I know, there is no internationally standardized classification schema. Thus, I propose to incorporate the classification of the Swiss Alpine Club<http://alpen.sac-cas.ch/html_d/archiv/2002/200204/ad_2002_04_18.pdf>(source in german). Not because I am from Switzerland (I am not), but because in my humble opinion this one is easy to understand and well defined. Please comment the proposal at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Hiking Best regards Chrischan
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