please no new highway, path/footway is already a very controversial tag.
Yes, and it could become a little clearer when there is different tags
for a 3 m wide and paved "path" and a 0.3 m wide and unpaved and
unmaintained "path". We have x road classes and just one for ways that
are not roads (given that footway, cycleway and bridleway are all
synonyms of highway=path designated=foo, dedicated=foo, official=foo,
etc.). I don't say stuff can't be expressed currently, but it would
make the life of mappers, renderers, routers much easier if there was
a way to put out the difference.
I would still say that the current highway=path handles this very well.
I've never felt constrained by this tag with the common attributes. You
can provide direction to renderers by adding surface=, width=, sac_scale,
mtb:scale . If current renderers do not interpret *scale, surface, or
numerical width - this is a renderer problem.
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