[OSM-talk] Tagging Scheme Recommendations: highway=path, footway, trail?

[Greg Corradini]

I've been looking at a lot of hiking trails on OSM in the Cascade Mountains
near Seattle. I've noticed a few different tags in regard to trail GPS
traces (highway=path,highway=footway,highway=trail,highway=footpath). The
wiki page on "US roads tagging" recommendations only has the following
advice to offer about trails:

"Ways on which most motor vehicle traffic is either legally of physically
prohibitive get highway <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway>=
path <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpath>, or a more
specific tag as appropriate. This category includes roads that normally
function as hiking trails because of barricades opened only occasionally or
rarely."

I'm wondering if anyone with more OSM trail tagging experience can clarify
the last part of the first sentence -- "*or a more specific tag as
appropriate*". Has anyone done a tag count of trail-like values in OSM to
get an idea what's being used the most? Does anyone have a opinion about a
more specific tag to use for this feature?

Thanks
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