[Tagging] Re : As the crow flies

[Steve Bennett]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com> wrote:
> It happens often on mountain hiking routes. You have a signpost with the
> red-white sign of the Alpine Club that indicates the direction that you have
> to take across a meadow, for example. On the other side you have to find a
> corresponding sign. In between there may not be any visible path. In that
> case I would happily put a highway=path with surface=grass as a straight
> line across the meadow.

IMHO that's a slightly different case - you also see it on beaches,
and sometimes on rocky slopes. Basically there is a defined path, but
its exact location is imprecise.

Steve