Consuming highway=path

Others consider the demo much more ambitious

Apart from that, the highway=path documentation shows a dirt path for ages, and consumers still render any old path as paved - The “demo” mimics mapbox style, in my eyes. The line with casing can only be understood as representing something constructed.

BTW OSM-Carto has three signatures for pedestrian paths. They are based on surface: paved, unpaved, unspecified. Differences are hard to spot though.

Curiously, americanamap does not show any pedestrian or cycling ways, nor tracks at all.

A big thank you to @n76 – great primer on the intricacies of consuming pedestrian information.

In the area where I map, footway is reserved for mostly urban municipal infrastructure while back-country it is all path. But as @alan_gr notes this does not hold for all of the world. Title of topic needs change?