This one of the more bewildering threads I've ever seen on tagging. Surely we have more than enough tags to indicate the physical attributes of ways for movement by foot or single track vehicles, and yes as nearly always there is a some overlap and grey area between when you would use a footway and when a path. But in the end it is up to the data consumers to actually do something with the tags (and clearly they could differentiate between a well trodden path in a city park and a difficult hiking route even now) and adding yet another variant is not going to help at all.
The other point discussed indicating important/official status/whatever of a route clearly belongs, well, on the route and given that nearly all the examples given are routes consisting of multiple ways with potentially differing characteristics surely for once this is a clear case for route relations (and tagging importance as an attribute of them). Simon
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