The first proponent currently AWK, the second taker threw in the towel, anybody care to take on this?
Maybe August is not the good time for seeking volunteers.
However, having recently read the excellent and sensible tagging summary here, I must say thatās a lot of work ahead just to remove the āsacā of āsac_scaleā.
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The SAC revised their scale last year, and it now looks a a bit more like their skitouring scale, where the top degree is āany fall likely fatalā. I took the foot-scale torch from @erutan , but learned the hard way, that the talking community is not at all interested in a foot-scale in the way I understand it, starting from paved 2m wide footways, but instead in a ābackwoods hiking scaleā instead, starting from barely a single foot wide dirt trails.
Even then though I am at odds with what the community wants, I still think a key that is not named after a third party and independently developed by them away from what is was when it was ported to openstreetmap might might serve international users better and find more uptake.
I just need to find time to go over photos, I gathered up the ones from your thread (though there are differences I need to shuffle things around in) and have some of my own to fill in the blanks, but I need to sort out a good number of them that describe different terrain etc. Itās currently lacking desert, beach, and tropical examples, which I was going through my back catalog for.
User:Erutan/foot scale - OpenStreetMap Wiki is where mine is at now.
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Recently went to some peak with a great view. Openstreetmap has a path going off of my path. I did not notice there then. Still, it has tiny Strava heat. Curiously, there is an AllTrails (true to the letter they are) route over this: Kanzelkehre - Schichthals - Kirchenspitz, Tyrol, Austria - 2 Reviews, Map | AllTrails ā Quote:
I think this walk requires a new level of definition of āhardā from All Trails
From having looked at the area in question from above, and the pictures on the route, Iād say it is T3 terrain. Reading comments like that, I just hope foot_scale will not become a clone of sac_scale, i.e. detached from lots of peoples expectations.
I think the =path tag is bordering on useless outside of an urban area but we saw how well the proposal to carve off a bit of that went.
I managed to capture a photo with real people: A person highly attentive in their movements.
This is quasi urban setting: Just out of the cable car heading over to the restaurant. Seconds later I observed another person, that clearly was uneasy with that terrain. Single steps 10cm or so. I bet can be observed several times a day.
I do not see any PII troubles, so posted to File:Attentive Walking.jpg - Wikimedia Commons for your use, if merited.
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