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

[Apollinaris Schoell]

you may add a visibility tag, if it's rough terrain also sac_scale may  
apply
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:trail_visibility

On 26 Aug 2009, at 7:25 , Nick Whitelegg 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.
>
> 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
>
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