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

[Craig Wallace]

On 22/10/2010 17:14, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:11 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
> <dieterdreist at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> We could hijack the trail page (given that trail to native speakers
>> implies what I want to express)
>
> Not really; see the "rails to trails" movement.

Yes, "trail" is an even more ambiguous word than "path". It can refer to 
just about anything that isn't a paved road. So it might be a forest 
track, or a hiking path, or a mountain bike trail etc. And it might be 
an official, signposted route or it might not.
See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail

So best to avoid using "trail", as people will assume it applies many 
different things.