Tags removed. (Workaround developed independently from OSM.)
Best regards

I will start to search for an alternative solution but *kindly request that you please do not remove these tags now*. I will certainly delete them once I have a developed an alternative method to deal with the issue.
Thank you.

Hello:
yes, I have (now) "a lot" of local knowledge.
I am working (with CartONG http://cartONG.org) on a development project, together with a collective in Larabanga. I just received back their work on about 45 FieldPapers I sent them for the town and they have (among many other corrections and detailed info) traced all "major" and "minor" paths that are actually used by the people there.
Yesterday I started to revise the current OSM map in a provisional way, with the first of these 45 papers. You are correct, I invented "minor path" but I am not satisfied with this. (I did this provisionally but would have retagged in the next few days.) In coordinating the FieldPapers work they did, I asked them to distinguished between "major" and "minor" (foot)paths through the village. They did so; now it is up to me to tag them satisfactorily.
As you can now understand, over the next several weeks I will be adding a great deal of very detailed info on a variety of features to the map. Things will be changing quickly, but I have every interest to remain within the "mainstream" of tagging conventions.
I do appreciate your comments so please feel free to continue this thread with me whenever you wish. The more feedback, the better.
Best regards,
Robert Danziger
PS: I have been working with people in Larabanga since 2006 on various educational projects (www.liei-ghana.org): this newest project is for tourism development and as a basis requires a good map. Thus all the activity attributed to me over the last ca. 6 months.