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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>
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<i>A non-specific path. </i><i><font color="#cc0000"><b>Use </b><b><tt
dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"
style="background:#EEF;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><bdi
style="white-space:nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">highway</a></bdi>=<a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dfootway"
title="Tag:highway=footway"><bdi>footway</bdi></a></tt></b><b>
for paths mainly for walkers, </b><b><tt dir="ltr"
class="mw-content-ltr"
style="background:#EEF;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><bdi
style="white-space:nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">highway</a></bdi>=<a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dcycleway"
title="Tag:highway=cycleway"><bdi>cycleway</bdi></a></tt></b><b>
for one also usable by cyclists, </b><b><tt dir="ltr"
class="mw-content-ltr"
style="background:#EEF;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><bdi
style="white-space:nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">highway</a></bdi>=<a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dbridleway"
title="Tag:highway=bridleway"><bdi>bridleway</bdi></a></tt></b><b>
for ones available to horse riders as well as walkers </b></font></i><i>and
</i><i><tt dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"
style="background:#EEF;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><bdi
style="white-space:nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">highway</a></bdi>=<a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtrack"
title="Tag:highway=track"><bdi>track</bdi></a></tt></i><i> for
ones which is passable by agriculture or similar vehicles.</i><br>
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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>
<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>
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