[Talk-GB] Advice please: Goat tracks in mountain areas

[Mark Goodge]

On 05/02/2022 14:26, Gruff Owen wrote:
> 
> I'd very much appreciate your views on this and would be interested if 
> similar Ways have been discussed in the past? I'm a relative newbie to 
> OSM so I'm a bit reluctant to propose a solution, but I expect that it 
> would involve removal, or tagging appropriately so that features of this 
> nature are not "scraped" up as routes by services such as Strava / 
> Komoot etc??

Does OSM have a concept of a natural (ie, not man-made) track? If it 
exists permanently (or, at least, as a relatively stable feature), then 
I agree it should be mapped, but it should be mapped as a land feature 
rather than as a highway.

The wiki doesn't list anything which, at first glance, looks suitable 
(although I'm only going by the summaries, I haven't read each 
individual page). Maybe this is something which needs to be considered 
as a future tag.

On the other hand, is it actually a stable feature? Animal tracks are 
likely to vary according to all sorts of factors, and trying to map them 
may well be a futile cause anyway. For reference, OS doesn't map this 
one, so presumably they don't consider it a stable land feature.

Mark