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Re:Organic Maps by gorbypark on Friday September 01, 2023 @08:15AM (#37349793)
The elevation profile is great, for sure, but I meant more like...difficulty, rather than grade? I don't know the exact word to use, but sometimes you have well used, well marked trails and other times you have a "trail" that maybe gets used a few times a year and is more like a choose your own adventure with a rock cairn or two every couple hundred meters if you are lucky.
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Re:Organic Maps by ijustlovemath on Friday September 01, 2023 @08:27AM (#37349917)
Ah, I see! I'm not sure if OSM data can have that information, but it would be great! Some kind of bushwhack out of 10 rating?
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Re:Organic Maps by aembleton on Friday September 01, 2023 @10:22AM (#37351199)
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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Re:Organic Maps by ijustlovemath on Friday September 01, 2023 @12:52PM (#37353281)
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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Re:Organic Maps by ihatehn on Friday September 01, 2023 @03:30PM (#37355201)
I think Komoot uses openstreetmap and is a little more hiking oriented, that might be useful to you.
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