Key:assisted_trail
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| Description |
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| Indicates that the dangerous or difficult sections of a hiking path are secured by technical means like steel cables, fixed ropes, ladders, or rungs. |
| Group: hiking |
| Used on these elements |
| Implies |
| Useful combination |
| Status: approved |
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Indicates that the dangerous or difficult sections of a hiking path are secured by technical means like steel cables, fixed ropes, ladders, or rungs.
This tag is meant for hiking trails, it shouldn't be used for highway=via_ferrata because those ways are secured continuously by technical means.
How to map
This tag is part of safety measures on hiking trails. If you don't want to split a longer highway=path into several segments to tag their particular safety measures with the main tags described below, you can add the following tag to the whole highway=path:
| Key | Value | Element | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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yes |
Way segment with various safety measures |
If you want to be more precise you can tag the individual sections of the way
or just nodes
where are the technical devices with:
highway=ladder(note thatladder=*has been deprecated)safety_rope=*rungs=*
See also
sac_scale=*- provides information about the general difficulty of a trailhighway=via_ferrata- mountain route where climber is attached to supporting equipment limiting fall
