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since it's surveyed in wintertime with a snowmobile it can be hard to know what it is in summer time. Not sure this is the best place to take the fight about snowmobile track.
It might also be just a gap or clearing in the forest or across a wetland, impassable in the summer. Although a general discussion of snowmobile tagging would be valuable, the Notes feature is not the right place for that.
@Essin have you surveyed this or are you just guessing? This is not "a general discussion of snowmobile tagging" - it's a question about what a particular feature on the map is.
How to go forward? this is the rendering:
http://skoterleder.org/map/?zoom=14&lat=63.7939&lng=20.4581&icon=l
These are the docs that they are created from: http://skoterleder.org/create.html
If the mapper followed the spec it should have been tagged highway=path if there was something there in the summer time. But the landscape in summer vs. winter is just too different.
Sorry for not replying earlier, I have been very busy IRL. My point is that two common OSM-based snowmobile maps (skoterleder.org that emj linked, and opensledmap.org, run by Magnus-L who originally mapped this way) actually seem to recommend omitting highway=* if there's no footpath or road in the summer. I'm not convinced this tagging is optimal, but it would probably be more efficient to discuss this on a mailing list or directly with Magnus-L or Henrik Rosvall who runs skoterleder.org.
The consensus in the thread starting with https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-se/2016-March/002919.html seems to be that currently, the best available option is omitting highway=* if the trail is impassable or with unknown status in the snowfree season. A change in that practice needs a discussion at a higher level than a single note, so I propose to close this note.