Don’t let small mistakes get you down, we are human after all. While planning an edit, it’s good practice to refer to the wiki, take some time getting to know OSM’s tagging system. Flareon suggests you’re a Pokémon Go player. If that’s the case, why not take a walk on your surroundings while recording a .gpx track? highway=path for instance are easy to identify in the real world, and easy to add to OSM using a recorded .gpx.

whats a .gpx and how do i record it

Here is the first result on osm:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GPX

Look for yourself & you are bound to find better references than that.