On Tue, 2020-12-01 at 17:55 +0100, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote: > Given "in the field they may also look like trails." it seems to not > be solvable. > > How mappers are supposed to distinguish them from normal paths?
Humans are animals, mammals to be a bit more exact. The non-human paths I have had most experience of following are made by sheep in the mountains. On reasonably level ground they appear very similar to human made paths, and is tempting to follow them. The problems come as the ground gets steep, and as you no doubt aware sheep have small feet which are relatively close together. The result is that the paths can be deep ruts, that a little more than 10cm wide, not wide enough for a pair of human walking boots to pass. Little point mapping the narrow parts, but the parts that look like it may be a path are worth mapping to indicate that they are not, and the next unfortunate bobble hatted walker will know not to follow them. Phil (trigpoint)
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