Key:assisted_trail

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Description
Indicates that the dangerous or difficult sections of a hiking path are secured by technical means like steel cables, fixed ropes, ladders, or rungs. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: hiking
Used on these elements
should not be used on nodesmay be used on waysshould not be used on areasshould not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Implies
Useful combination
Status: approvedPage for proposal

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 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
assisted_trail yes way Way segment with various safety measures


If you want to be more precise you can tag the individual sections of the way way or just nodes node where are the technical devices with:

See also

  • sac_scale=* - provides information about the general difficulty of a trail
  • highway=via_ferrata - mountain route where climber is attached to supporting equipment limiting fall