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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/12/20 10:36 am, Lukas Richert
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<p>I wouldn't tag this as foot=no or access=no. There are many
trails in my area that are clearly animal tracks and seldom used
by people - but it is allowed for people to walk on these and
they are sometimes significant shortcuts so allowing routing
over them in some cases would be good. However, they should be
lower priority than real paths.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 30.11.20 23:06, Paul Allen wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 21:45, Brian M.
Sperlongano <<a href="mailto:zelonewolf@gmail.com"
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<div dir="ltr">Note that there is already an animal=* tag
for describing things related to animals, so that
probably shouldn't be overridden. Perhaps a combination
of foot=no and animal=yes satisfies what we're
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<div> Or not:highway=path + note=animal trail.</div>
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<p>I think these are called 'animal pads'? They are usefull for
hiking where no other path exists as they avoid further damage to
vegetation and damage to pants/gaiters/shoes. They do also lead
hikers astray by leading away from the path that they should use.
Possibly highway=pad or highway=animal_pad? <br>
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<p>The tags 'note' and 'comment' are for mappers and not usually
used by renders, using the tag 'description' may be more helpful?
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<p>The tag 'access' should be used where access is restricted within
OSM. I don't think it is necessary to have signage on the ground
to apply access tags that are 'community standard' e.g. most home
driveways in Australia would be regarded as access=private and
should be tagged as such within OSM despite there being no sign on
every home driveway. <br>
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