[Tagging] "new" highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

[Apollinaris Schoell]

On 22 Oct 2010, at 9:11 , M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:

> 
> Looking at a dictionary I found "trail" (for german "Trampelpfad"),
> and helas: there is already a tag-page:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtrail
> 
> It isn't very clear though and from the picture I'd say that is highway=path.
> 

please no new highway, path/footway is already a very controversial tag. why not add additional tags to path. path is very generic and we have a documented visibility tag