Re: [talk-au] sac_scale [Was: Deletion of walking tracks/paths]

2022-01-28 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 29 Jan 2022 at 08:50, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > > I remember seeing mention in the Tagging list a little while back re a new > way of mapping highways in Japan. > Here it is: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_JapanTagging/RoadTypes/motorroad Yes, it was rejected, but I won

Re: [talk-au] sac_scale [Was: Deletion of walking tracks/paths]

2022-01-28 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 at 18:24, Phil Wyatt wrote: Thanks for the clarification. I agree that for the average punter/tourist the Australian Walking Track > Classification is the ‘simplest to understand in plain language’. Now can > we benchmark that against the sac_scale? > Do we need to? I reme

Re: [talk-au] sac_scale [Was: Deletion of walking tracks/paths]

2022-01-28 Thread iansteer
If we agree that the Australian Walking Track Grading System is worth tagging, the next question is how to tag it? The couple I have tagged, I just did "awtgs=" I heard back from the German guy who deleted my tags (he was apologetic) and he said he thought it was a simple misspelling of a tag bec

Re: [talk-au] sac_scale [Was: Deletion of walking tracks/paths]

2022-01-28 Thread Phil Wyatt
Hi Graeme, The two systems are not 100% directly relatable because they are designed for very different purposes. One is essentially for promotional purposes and the other has legal ramifications for safety, infrastructure construction. Only two aspects of the standard are benchmarked to the