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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/12/20 6:41 am, Philip Barnes
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<div>On Tue, 2020-12-01 at 17:55 +0100, Mateusz Konieczny via
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<div>Given "in the field they may also look like trails." it
seems to not be solvable.<br>
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<div>How mappers are supposed to distinguish them from normal
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<div>Humans are animals, mammals to be a bit more exact.</div>
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<div>The non-human paths I have had most experience of following
are made by sheep in the mountains.</div>
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<div>On reasonably level ground they appear very similar to human
made paths, and is tempting to follow them.</div>
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<div>The problems come as the ground gets steep, and as you no
doubt aware sheep have small feet which are relatively close
together.</div>
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<div>The result is that the paths can be deep ruts, that a little
more than 10cm wide, not wide enough for a pair of human walking
boots to pass.</div>
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<p>Wombat pads are wide enough to follow but the animal is lo to the
ground and can go through what to a human is inpenatrable scrub -
some is simply to thiic and interwwoven and some has sharp needle
leves that penitrate colthing and prick the skin. <br>
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