[OSM-talk] Cattle tracks in Spain

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Sunday 18 Feb 2007 03:59, Mike Collinson wrote:
> In Australia, I have been tagging fire trails -
> tracks deliberately built for fire trucks to use
> during bush fires - as highway=track and
> name=fire trail (lower case).  They are a major
> feature of the rural landscape.  I wonder if a
> similar approach would apply here?
>
> In the UK they are called drove roads but are
> mostly (always?) historic and used for local farm
> access and footpaths only.  I believe, but stand
> to be corrected, that they often have the status of a full public road.
>
> Mike
> Manila

Yes - generally they have become byways, or "green lanes" (which probably have 
the same access rights but are not waymarked)

Nick