[Tagging] How to tag a mule track

[Ivo Reano]

Il giorno ven 1 lug 2022 alle ore 14:54 Timothy Noname <hervbeof at gmail.com>
ha scritto:

> What is the legal status of these tracks? Is it a public right of way for
> humans on foot and pack mules, what is the status for people riding horses?
>
> They have no legal status of their own.
Since they are paths, they are outside the scope of the roads that can be
traveled by motor vehicles. In Piedmont, the law expressly prohibits
motorized traffic on the trails. Horses can ride on trails, as can bicycles.
Some are classified as "municipal roads".
Roads in the mountains are so called, and before the advent of carriage
roads. They are now essentially comparable to any hiking trail.
There is no single typology. There are streets up to two meters wide with a
paved surface and side walls, but the continuity of these elements is
neither constant nor mandatory.
They can be distinguished between the mule tracks born with the aim of
bringing supplies (and this is the origin of the name) to border areas, or
with military purpose.
For these, which do not serve to connect inhabited areas (at least once
inhabited!) And are used a lot by hikers, since they are the means to get
to hills otherwise not connected.
But, there are a large amount of paths with paved ground and which serve /
serve to connect small or large villages and whose practicability is due to
the commitment of local volunteers who maintain these paths with the aim of
maintaining the connection with remote locations for maintain the
historical and cultural memory of the mountains, and not just for hiking.
Typically I map these paths with
highway = path + surface = pebblestone or rock + trail_visibility =
excellent (if it is not excellent it is because the route has been
completely ruined by time).

I rarely add the historic = mule_path only for traits that have particular
historical importance.

Ivo, Jrachi
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