[Tagging] "new" highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

[Alex Mauer]

On 10/22/2010 02:18 PM, Ralf Kleineisel wrote:
> On 10/22/2010 06:42 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
>> Yes, and it could become a little clearer when there is different tags
>> for a 3 m wide and paved "path" and a 0.3 m wide and unpaved and
>> unmaintained "path".
>
> If it is 3 m wide it is a track. If it's paved it's grade1, if it's
> worse its a lower grade.

No.  Width is not a sufficient criterion to determine whether it’s a 
track. There is a rails-to-trails conversions around here that don’t 
have anything physically preventing cars from driving down it (and in 
fact they’re driven on by county park vehicles for maintenance and 
catching people using them without a trail pass.) That does not make it 
a highway=track.

—Alex Mauer “hawke”