Undo/refine "display highway=path like highway=footway"

[jengelh]

Rendering of highway=path changed recently with a css update.
I think commit 8d850af is the one.
Area of interest: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/51.51748/9.98481

• A proper designated municipal footway with gravel/compacted surface is now in the same visual class as a puny forest trail. Both are rendered with weaker dots, but any designated footway is better than a forest trail.
• The contrast of 'unpaved' ways with their weak dots is now much worse on any kind of green background (like forest and landuse=grass)

I am entertaining a number of independent options:

• Use weak dots for all highway=path, use normal dots for all highway=footway
• Render footways and cycleways as dashes rather than dots, like OsmAnd does
• Considering a darker shade of red for footways
• Using black for footways (since paths no longer have a special rendering)
• Restore black dashed lines for highway=path

[gravitystorm]

A proper designated municipal footway with gravel/compacted surface is now in the same visual class as a puny forest trail.

This has always been the case. Depending on the preference of the individual mapper, both could have been mapped as highway=path, or both could have been mapped as highway=footway. There are extensive discussions on this issue tracker already ( #1698 , #1713 , #1713 (comment) etc)

If you would like to propose specific changes that is great, please open pull requests or specific issues. But the unification of highway=path and highway=footway is deliberate and carefully considered, so if you want to see differences in rendering, you need to consider other tags like surface.