I'm not sure that I understand your problem. Currently when people see
something they decide what to tag it, based on what other people have
used in the past and/or what's documented on the wiki - some people are
seeing things for which they think "foo=bar" is appropriate. Often the
choice of tag is very subjective and far from straightforward. If you
haven't been to the place that they're mapping, how can you say that
they're wrong and you're right?
Are you trying to create a schema into which all of the "foos" of the
world fit, and impose that on mappers? If so, OSM may not be the
project for that - it's strength is very much that mappers can make
things up as they go along, and tag usage can evolve beyond what a bunch
of people at the start of the project thought was needed.
If you're coming at this from a data usage perspective, then regardless
of how people map going forward there are an awful lot of
"cycleway=track" out there and you're going to have to either (a) deal
with them or (b) do a large amount of worldwide surveying and remapping.
Cheers,
Andy
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