Route order in bulk-imported(?) areas

[MelwinQ]

I have run across some areas that have a high degree of completeness in terms of routes (eg https://www.thecrag.com/climbing/germany/harz-mountains/area/265346592, https://www.thecrag.com/climbing/germany/sachsische-schweiz) but the order of the routes is merely alphabetical, not corresponding to the natural order. If these areas have been bulk-imported from any source, it would be nice to check if this source held the correct order and if this order could be preserved.

[MelwinQ]

More general, afaik there seems no common convention, neither in guidebooks nor in thecrag, if routes are sorted/entered

• left to right / ccw
• right-to-left / cw
• not sorted Knowing the way the routes are displayed is of great use in the field, unless there is already a photo top. What about adding a tag with the abovementioned three values? Ideally, the user could the flick the order in the list view, if desired (e.g. walking the cliff base in the opposite direction).

[brendanheywood]

Normally this is just said in words in the description, but yes for certain crags which are fairly linear a left to right, or right to left, these tags would be great.

This really should be split into two issues, one for adding the tags which merely describe the order and one for ensuring that the order is retained when importing.

[brendanheywood]

Split the tagging part into https://github.com/theCrag/website/issues/3278

[brendanheywood]

One complication for reversing the order: annotations are usually about a group of routes after the annotation, but we don't know which routes they pertain too. So the reversing of the routes would only work in a context without annotations, more like a pure search. We can't just reverse the guide.

An example of where this would not work:

https://www.thecrag.com/climbing/australia/kangaroo-point/area/171980964#contents