RfC: Highway=Scramble

[ezekielf (Zeke Farwell)]

@schoschi

I do explicitly not want my mapping efforts to be visible on all maps because that’s against the very basic idea of having multiple maps: specialization. For example, I wish wheelmap.org or OsmAnd in car driving profile will not show scrambles, while waymarkedtrails.org shall.

I 100% agree.

@schoschi

That’s one of several reason why I find highway=scramble inferior to the alternative highway=demanding_path + demanding_path=scramble (or other wording): The latter seems to allow an automated edit for a considerable share of ways, namely all SAC T4-T6

I’m open to considering the idea of highway=demanding_path, but that would be a different, broader description than what @Hungerburg developed for highway=scramble. In your vote comment you say it is more verifiable and less subjective, but I do not see this. If I lived in a region where all hiking routes are given an official SAC scale rating by some authority then perhaps I would agree. Then I could simply verify if the rating was T4-T6 and tag highway=demanding_path. However this is not the case in my area of the world. There are no official ratings to verify against. So it would be a subjective assement on my part whether a given trail qualifies as “demanding” or not. On the other hand, I find highway=scramble intuitively verifiable even though it also is not free of subjectivity.