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

[Xan]

En/na Jonathan Bennett ha escrit:
> 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.
>   
Yes, primary and secondary is "arbitrary". The width is much appropiate. 
How can I add the width and the surface of the path? Can I add that the 
path is not clean (there are trees or bushes in difficulting the pass 
through).

Thanks,
Xan.