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

[Alex Mauer]

On 10/22/2010 02:13 PM, Ralf Kleineisel wrote:
> On 10/22/2010 06:11 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>> Looking at a dictionary I found "trail" (for german "Trampelpfad"),
>> and helas: there is already a tag-page:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtrail
>>
>> It isn't very clear though and from the picture I'd say that is highway=path.
>
> I think path is clear enough. A path is - according to the wiki - too
> narrow for a car to drive on.

That’s not what the wiki says.  It says “If a path is wide enough for 
four-wheel-vehicles […] it is often better tagged as a highway=track.”

That doesn’t mean that that is the only criterion.

—Alex Mauer “hawke”