Hi conifermapper,

Thanks for making that clear.

On OS OpenData StreetView a number of what you've marked as paths are actually cutlines in the forest plantation. These aren't intended as paths (I think they're for biodiversity, or fire protection, but not sure). I tried walking some of these in the Mynydd Du forest and they are impassible.

Given how hard going passing through forested land is, I'd argue for being very conservative about where we tag paths on the map. Unless supported by a survey actually walking the route, or a good handful of mutually corroborating GPS traces, I wouldn't support including them. Again (picking up a theme from the other discussion), from a navigational point of view I found it actively unhelpful to have so many paths in OSM. 

Even the rights of way and paths marked on the Ordnance Survey 1:25k maps are often impassible now (after many decades of forestation) and I think OSM should aspire to be more accurate than those. So I'm minded to prune out a lot of the paths added on this changeset.

Kind regards,

eteb3