Update 25: Help us generate lots of useful route tags

What would you like Good Ways for? Ancient Trees, Big Dogs, Toilets and Wild Swimming? Or Wheelchairs, Street Art, Coffee, Buses and Sea Views?

We want everyone to be able to find routes that are good for them by searching for keywords or tags.

People will be able to add tags describing what to expect along a route, and others will be able to agree or disagree with what’s been added.

We’ll start with the most common, useful and important tags, and gradually introduce more over time.

We’d love your help creating an A to Z of the most useful tags. Please comment below with the things you’d most like to search for.

Don’t worry if someone else has already suggested the same thing. It’s just as useful to know what people agree on.

Ideally, we’d like all the tags to work after the words “Good Ways for…”

For example, Good Ways for…

What else would you add?

And a Question. Are there any groups of people that it would be useful to tag? Does it mean anything to say that a route is good for children, for example? We don’t think so, but would appreciate your feedback.

We are also exploring how routes can be tagged with a route grade or standard. Examples include:

• Disabled Ramblers grades 1-4
• Adaptive Mountain Biking grades 1-4
• Swiss Alpine Club grades T1–T6
• Experience Community (used by Slow Ways) grading 1-5 and YZX

Across walking, running, cycling, wheeling, horse-riding, skating, swimming and paddle sports – what grades should we be looking at? Are there any that would work well as tags that people could agree with or not? We are keen to learn of local and international examples.

And another thing we’d like to bounce off you. Some groups use terms like ‘easy’ and ‘hard’ to describe routes. We find these too subjective to be useful as general labels, but valuable when shared as someone’s personal perspective. What do you think? When do you find these terms useful?

We will use your responses to decide what to include.

Please do reply below. It will be great to see what you would like. Thank you.

As a quick reminder:

1. Please share lots of route tags that you would like to search for. e.g. Good Way for… Views. No more than 50 tags please!
2. Is it useful to include tags for any groups of people? e.g. Good Way for… Children
3. Are there any grading systems or standards we should include? e.g. Disabled Ramblers Grades
4. Do you ever find subjective labels useful? e.g. Either an organisation or someone you trust saying a route is Easy.