<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 12:27 PM Josh Marshall <<a href="mailto:josh.p.marshall@gmail.com">josh.p.marshall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">My proposal is to alter the ways associated with the track to highway=track (it’s all wide enough for vehicles), but retain railway=abandoned, and add all the missing ways to the above relation. <br>
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My main reasoning behind this is to raise it’s visibility as a walk and ride option, and allow routing along it, as current routers (Strava, Komoot) ignore it altogether (much to my annoyance). It’s what’s been done for locally, the Fernleigh Track (<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2269030" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2269030</a>), and elsewhere eg The Great Victorian Rail Trail (<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1043265" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1043265</a>)<br>
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Now the other question is what should be done with the proposal as far as adding tags. This way is on the old rail line and part of the proposal, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/243988974" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/243988974</a> has railway=abandoned, highway=proposed and proposed=cycleway. It’s all accessible now, so it should be highway=track (surface=unpaved), but then how to tag for the proposal?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree, it should have highway=track now if someone could drive on it. That video on the council website looks like some significant work is going into this project.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd drop the current "name=Richmond Vale Railway" tag (only if the tracks have been removed), leave old_name, and add "proposed:name=Richmond Vale Rail Trail". If the railway tracks remain (as they do in some sections of imagery at some unknown date) and the rail trail is a different alignment, you might need to map them separately.</div><div><br></div></div><div>--<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Jono</div></div>