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

[Roland Olbricht]

> 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.

I use
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=path/Examples
and have concluded to use
highway=path, wheelchair=no
The first tag classifies the way as being an unpaved and small path while the 
second clarifies that you can't use it for anything on wheels.

Cheers,
Roland