<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I hadn’t looked at that page in a while, but I’ve been using highway=path in the same way as you describe. Hiking trails, singletrack MTB. Footway I only tag in built up areas. <div class="">What do other places in the world do?</div><div class="">Martijn<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 19, 2019, at 8:28 AM, brad <<a href="mailto:bradhaack@fastmail.com" class="">bradhaack@fastmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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Everywhere I've been in the US or Canada a dirt 'way' too narrow for
a 4 wheel vehicle is called a trail, path, or single track. For
the most part they are appropriately (IMO) tagged as path.
Unfortunately the wiki says this for highway:path (the highlighting
is mine):<br class="">
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<i class="">A non-specific path. </i><i class=""><font color="#cc0000" class=""><b class="">Use </b><b class=""><tt dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="background:#EEF;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><bdi style="white-space:nowrap" class=""><a class="mw-selflink selflink">highway</a></bdi>=<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dfootway" title="Tag:highway=footway" class=""><bdi class="">footway</bdi></a></tt></b><b class="">
for paths mainly for walkers, </b><b class=""><tt dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="background:#EEF;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><bdi style="white-space:nowrap" class=""><a class="mw-selflink selflink">highway</a></bdi>=<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dcycleway" title="Tag:highway=cycleway" class=""><bdi class="">cycleway</bdi></a></tt></b><b class="">
for one also usable by cyclists, </b><b class=""><tt dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="background:#EEF;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><bdi style="white-space:nowrap" class=""><a class="mw-selflink selflink">highway</a></bdi>=<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dbridleway" title="Tag:highway=bridleway" class=""><bdi class="">bridleway</bdi></a></tt></b><b class="">
for ones available to horse riders as well as walkers </b></font></i><i class="">and
</i><i class=""><tt dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="background:#EEF;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><bdi style="white-space:nowrap" class=""><a class="mw-selflink selflink">highway</a></bdi>=<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtrack" title="Tag:highway=track" class=""><bdi class="">track</bdi></a></tt></i><i class=""> for
ones which is passable by agriculture or similar vehicles.</i><br class="">
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I think it makes no sense to call a dirt path, open to more than 1
user group, anything other than a path. Since about 98% of the
trail tagging that I've seen seems to agree, Is there consensus on
this? Perhaps if the international group likes the description as
is, a clarification on the US road tagging wiki page?<br class="">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging</a><br class="">
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