If there were routing issues related to having highway=path instead of highway=cycleway, please contact the developer of the router, it's clearly a bug.

There is not much discussion under the thread because Estonian community isn't very active. There were quite a lot discussions in changeset comments before I've created it. If you don't agree, you can post in that thread.

The way of using highway=path is documented in the wiki and is actually used in many countries in practice, some of which even changed iD Editor's default.

For example, Vespucci editor uses highway=path, if I remember right.


But anyway, I think that the main thing is that we don't change this back-and-forth in a useless edit war.