On 21/01/13 13:02, Erik Johansson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Richard Mann > <richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> No word for it in English (en-gb), to my knowledge. Locally we'd refer to >> "the slope by the bridge" or "going up to Rayleigh Park". As some of us were >> doing yesterday :o) > > Thanks all for the wonderfull anecdotes, since I only know how to use > a sled here it's really usefull.
Might just add our used method to get the sleds uphill. Tie all sleds in a row behind a car (with non-skid chains) and drive uphill. We usually even ride on the sleds while pulled uphill. > What do you think about: > piste:type=sled_slope > or > leisure=sled_slope > > which would mean an informal route for pulka/sled/luge, piste:type > seems some what sterile and professional I would rather use > leisure=sled_slope since I'm really talking about those small 30 meter > informal slopes, in leisure=parks or on highway=footway. +1 > So some different scenarios: > 1. in my leisure=park there is a 100m slope. > 2. there are sled parks, where you can go sled on a prepared track, > which I'm guessing is mostly for kids/familys(?) > 3. The sled parks might be open in the summer > 4. in the Alps you have 2km long slopes made up of ordinary highway=* > ways, and other shortcuts. [1] > > I'm thinking 1 and 4 are informal and might be leisure=* and 2, 3 > might still be piste:type=sled. You are right there are differences between informal and official slops. This leads to different rules and right of ways. As official ways I know pathes, tracks and even roads which are signed, prepared and often reserved for sleds the whole winter or several hours a day. Often there exists some kind of transportation system to get uphill but it is not needed. E.g. 4 could be both official or informal but actually I would not tag an informal one as they usually are quite dangerous and only usable in a night with heavy snow fall. > [1] I'm imagining a network on normal roads consisting of ~1000kms of > sled routes, allowing you to go from eastern Austria to Nice. Problem are the mountain passes. They are either closed with avalanche risks or they are important connections and snowplowed. You are probably better of using touring skies as it is no fun to sled through one meter of powder as you won't get speed. Have fun fly _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
