Discussion about deleting the highway samples page

[Hungerburg (Asa Hundert)]

@_MisterY

The key highway=* is the main key used for identifying any kind of road, street or path. The value of the key helps indicate the importance of the highway within the road network as a whole.

probably means that the highway=* tag should be appropriate for any type of path?

I guess, all that this says is:

Path is the least important road, route, way, or thoroughfare on land which connects one location to another and has been paved or otherwise improved, including by mere trampling by a sufficient number of humans, to allow travel in some way, including by motorised vehicles, cyclists, pedestrians, horse riders, and others" [c.f.]

PS: Not being motorist, that is why I find the idea of pathway=* so intriguing, as a new top-level-key, that is. We just lack some clever values, I do not think primary, secondary, … will do.