I strongly prefer highway=path over highway=footway.
Most "paths" that get tagged as footways are not signed to say that bicycles are NOT permitted - hence bicycles ARE permitted. Hence, if a path is tagged as a footway, you then need to go and add a 2nd tag "bicycle=yes" - otherwise routers won't route a bicycle on that path (I've lost count of the number of times I've had to add that tag.) It is much simpler (and less chance of being incorrect) to simply tag "highway=path" - and "highway=footway" adds no more information than "highway=path" (it just says "it's a path you can walk on" - which is assumed by when something is tagged as "highway=path").
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