Alpinist routes marked as footpaths

I think I wrote that before: Most of the problems that come from mapping pathless or scrambling routes as highway=path;++ will be handled just this way. These people will learn, not to trust openstreetmap. I have heard such said about Komoot, it just cannot be trusted.

The cases where mountain rescue will have to go out due to that rather rare. Sometimes backing-up just beyond the resources of the people, when they get aware of how deep they are in their mess.

This is a prime example of a pathless route. When it was added back into the data (deviating quite a bit from the first instance) I shortened the tagging there from “highway=path;type=route” to “highway=route”, removing this level of redirection, that some here are so fond of. Of course this was immediately changed to highway=path again.

A bit of polling back then showed, that many here are fine with the use of highway=path for pathless routes, where nothing on the ground, no trampling, no markers, even UIAA III climbing not seen problematic. There is a new topic on that, where of course everything said here gets repeated over and over.

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