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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sorry for the delay in responding. I’ve been considering your comments:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>You really only want bike routes that have some sort of external source, and preferably local signage for them.</span></i><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I’m tending to agree with you now that OSM should be a formal map of actual physical features. Perhaps the time to put a ‘Hume & Hovell Trail’ on OSM is when and if someone can drive a project similar to the Goulburn River High Country Rail Trail, to have signage placed and the trail publicized. I think touring cyclists would find this a very scenic, safe and interesting 4-5 day tour with an historical background to it. In the mean time Bikely.com is a suitable web site to publish bike routes and this is what I have done. I will remove the H&H Trail relations from OSM.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>.......... show explorers routes overlaid on normal maps.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This is probably a question to raise on the tagging mailing list. It's an issue that gets debated in various forms. It depends a lot on whether there is any physical manifestation of the historical event.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I still believe this sort of historical information makes maps valuable, providing there is a suitable historical tag for it. I may follow your suggestion to raise this issue on the tagging mailing list. How would I get on to the tagging mailing list? In the mean time I will remove the original explorers route from OSM.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I have at least been able to add missing roads, improved the accuracy of existing road location and corrected road names in OSM that follow my H&H Trail all the way from Wodonga to Broadford.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Again thank you for your interest and comments.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mark R.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p></div></body></html>