[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

[Liz]

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Nop wrote:
> - Some mappers are applying footway and cycleway rather indiscriminately
> to all sorts of ways so it basically only means "not for cars" in some
> areas
>
> In short: It's a mess. :-)
would a suggestion made on the talk-au list in which highway=footway and 
highway=cycleway be deprecated and be replaced by 
path=cycleway
path=footway
path=shared
be logically consistent with the German legal status of cycleways and 
footways?