[Tagging] Reviving the path discussion - the increasing importance of trails in OSM

[brad]

On 5/23/20 5:59 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 5:42 PM John Willis via Tagging
> <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>> =path is such a horrible catch-all tag and one that is extremely entrenched - I am surprised no one has implemented a path=trail subtag, similar to sidewalk, so we can separate all the hiking trails and other “hiking” paths, and then apply different hiking limitations you wouldn’t expect to find on a sidewalk or playground way.
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>> Mixing trails and sidewalks in the path key is as horrible as mixing up runways and train tracks in a “highway=not_car” way.
> Yeah. But it's so entrenched that trolltags are probably the only way
> out of the mess. And sac_scale is _surely_ not the right trolltag! The
> problem with sac_scale is that it's an impossible scale. I'm told that
> https://youtu.be/VKsD1qBpVYc?t=533 is still only a 2 out of 6 on that
> scale, and that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y5_lbQZJwQ is still
> only a 3. Note that one misstep on either of those trails can easily
> mean death.
>
>
Similar problem with mtb:scale .