[OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

[Nick Whitelegg]

>Ok, here is another problem for a non-native English speaker: I don't 
>understand the difference between a track and a path at all. Wikipedia 
>doesn't seem to help either, according to the page for "path", it may 
>refer to a "track", and "track" may mean "Trail, an informal road or 
>pathway" ("pathway" being a synonym for "path", I guess...)

A path is a narrow pedestrian (and perhaps horse and bicycle) route 
typically no more than about three feet across. Typically the surface is 
soil or concrete.

A track is gravel or dirt and is normally wider than about 3 feet, say 
6feet, it normally has evidence of "rutting" caused by motor traffic.

Nick