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Comment by aembleton

2 years ago

OSM does have that data, and I've noticed that mapy.cz takes it into account. There are sac_scale [1] and smoothness keys [2]

1. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:sac_scale

2. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:smoothness

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ijustlovemath  2 years ago

sac seems a little too broad to me; most trails would be level 2 or below, without communicating much more than a simple elevation profile already gives you.

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