Key:whitewater:section_grade

Degree of difficulty of white water. These are subjective in the good sense of the term.

See the International Scale of River Difficulty on Wikipedia

If you don't know a grade or can't decide, set it to "unknown". If you don't know about river practise, don't map it at all.

How to map

Add whitewater:section_grade=# to the whitewater section mapped with waterway=river.

You may add whitewater:section_name=* if it has a name.

Values

Grade 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 (see International Scale on Wikipedia)

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  Grade 0

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  Grade 1
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  Grade 2
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  Grade 3
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  Grade 4
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  Grade 5
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  Grade 6

(White water classification follows its own subjective rules not only described by these pictures, see International Scale)

See also

• Whitewater_sports
• whitewater:rapid_grade=* - Degree of difficulty of white water rapid
• Canoeing routes are mapped in relations of type type=route + route=canoe
• canoe=put_in - A good/recommended/commonly used place to put in. Node placed on one side of the river (like a bus_stop is placed one side of a road).
• canoe=egress - A good/recommended/commonly used place to take out. Node placed on one side of the river
• whitewater=hazard - Minor or Major hazard. Also use a description tag. Should be accompanied by whitewater:description=*.
• rapids=* - Degree of rapids