i agree, i think calling them cycleways is misleading. i would go with highway = footway, and perphaps leave the cycleway tags in, to ensure that routing still works. this has been discussed in the norwegian forum: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=75739 , and a bit here https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=76006 . 