Documenting solution proposals for `highway=path`

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@aighes

You can’t define on one side ways by usage and at the other side by difficulty.
If you mix different things, the chances are pretty high, that one physical way will fall into several of your categories.

AS @Hungerburg repeatedly points out, scrambles are distinguished by using hands, so the division is mostly by usage and also by the some class of physical characteristic (respecting that one tag can manifest differently in different parts of the world, but in a similar way in one area) these two usually go hand in hand.

So shared_use is something that is easy to ride your bike on (so usually constructed) and also wide enough for people to comfortably past each other. Scramble is something where biking is prety much impossible. Trail is something single-file that can be walked over (and possibly used by MB or horses). Fooway is similar but is more built-up and urban and probaly wider. Jus duck-tagging. I would be simpler for mappers, simpler for renderers. There would be grey area tha could be specified wih secondary tags, but the difference would be small so it would not be a big deal.

@aighes

Each of the ~3 new categories must maintain the same usage as highway=path is currently covering.

I mean, common, horse=yes for scramble? Really?

@osmuser63783

That combination of tags is foot=designated plus bicycle=designated… plus either highway=cycleway or highway=path, depending on the preference of mappers. (UK uses cycleway, Germany uses path, etc.)

How is that preferable to pathway=shared_use but for the sheer momentum of it?