[Tagging] Animal trails

Brian M. Sperlongano zelonewolf at gmail.com
Mon Nov 30 21:43:03 UTC 2020


Note that there is already an animal=* tag for describing things related to
animals, so that probably shouldn't be overridden.  Perhaps a combination
of foot=no and animal=yes satisfies what we're describing?

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 4:16 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 06:54, Yves via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
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>> Creating a new tag for this is not a bad idea.
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> Not a bad idea at all, even if just to stop them being marked as paths,
> but what would you tag them as?
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> Footpaths etc are currently tagged as highway=xxx, which really isn't
> appropriate for an animal track!
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> New tag animal=track / trail / path?
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> &, as in most things OSM, it's been discussed before, apparently with no
> resolution?
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> Thanks
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> Graeme
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