[OSM-talk] Tagging vague, ill-defined, or "unfriendly" paths

[Nick Whitelegg]

I suppose this brings up all the stuff about path tagging again, but, how 
do people in general tag vague, ill-defined countryside paths?

The sort of things I'm talking about are either very narrow and 
occasionally hard to follow paths through woods, or, firebreaks in forests 
where there is some evidence of foot use but there isn't a nice path as 
such. 

Generally I've been using  "width=narrow" for such instances. However, 
that description not always accurate as sometimes the width of the way 
isn't narrow, it's more that it's an "unfriendly" path e.g. a firebreak 
covered in rough grass, or a churned-up mud track used perhaps more by 
logging vehicles than pedestrians. Nonetheless the way is open to 
pedestrians, and often horses, typically on a permissive basis. 

Because there are lots of these in the New Forest, near where I live, I'd 
like to come to a definitive conclusion on this so that rendering can 
distinguish between "nice" and "not nice" paths.

Thanks,
Nick