[OSM-newbies] highway=path, type={primary,secundary}?

[Jonathan Bennett]

On 25/03/2010 20:20, Xan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way of marking the "importance" of a path? Clearly in the 
> forest there are primary paths and secondary paths (which begin from the 
> primary paths). Something like type=primary, type=secondary, ...?

The standard reply to this question is "important to who, and why?".

While I know what you're trying to map, you should do it in terms that
are easily verifiable, such as the width of the track and the surface.
Imposing an arbitrary hierarchy on the tracks doesn't really add any
usable information, since I don't know the criteria you've used to
determine what's "primary" and what's "secondary".

See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability for another
description of the problem with using tags like importance.
-- 
Jonathan (Jonobennett)