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

[Ben Laenen]

Roland Olbricht wrote:
> > 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

Not quite, it just says that it's not accessible for vehicles with more than 
two wheels. It says nothing about the surface or how wide it is.

> while
> the second clarifies that you can't use it for anything on wheels.

Ben