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

[John Smith]

On 27 October 2010 19:14, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure that's a good idea. By doing this, you give the possibility to
> trace almost all possible footways around the world even when it's not
> really a footway, e.g. shortcuts in parks. Or in nature, any track done by
> wild animals will become a footway, informal=yes...

Actually I've thought about how to tag shortcuts across parks for some
time so routing for people on foot works more realistically, but this
should probably be done more as an area rather than an implicit way.