[Tagging] highway=informal_path WAS: Re: "new" highway tag for small and informal footpaths; trail

[Simone Saviolo]

For example, what would you tag this?

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Vercelli,+Piedmont,+Italy&ll=45.314604,8.414012&spn=0.001633,0.004128&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=45.314594,8.413845&panoid=VAMbvxwaZiigA_JUOfHBkw&cbp=12,348.5,,0,31.53

I guess you could call it a path, a high-grade path at that, as it is
virtually unusable by cars, and I wouldn't go there with a moped
either; also, at the other end it reaches the sidewalk but to get on
the street you have to jump down the curb (some 15 cm curb). This is
really not a path, IMHO, as it is not actually in the street graph,
it's just a kind of shortcut that locals or bikers use to avoid going
on the overpass and walk/ride a kilometer when the destination is just
twenty metres away.

A path is somehow "official", while I think Martin's idea revolves
around informal and spontaneous paths and shortcuts that authorities
are somehow permissive about.

Ciao,

Simone