[talk-au] Tagging for "unofficial" Cycle routes in Lake Macquarie?

Lachlan Rogers lachlan at rogers.name
Sun Apr 22 13:09:04 BST 2012


I've recently moved back to Lake Macquarie after some years in Canberra,
and I'm delighted to find that there are more cycle paths around the
central coast and Lake Macquarie than I was previously aware of.
Unfortunately many of them are either incomplete or disconnected from each
other.

I am wanting to scout out optimal on-road routes to connect cycle paths
into excellent recreational routes.  For instance the recently opened
Fernleigh (Rail trail) Track ends in Belmont, and just a few kms away there
is a great path around Green Point.  I want to tag a route (probably as
"lcn") through the streets of Belmont so that viewers can see how best to
join these rides together.  To my knowledge there is no official
council-endorsed cycle route.

I recognise some people may have a philosophical aversion to this, because
it is tagging based on usefulness rather than on what is "actually on the
ground".  I feel, however, that we have an opportunity to scout out optimal
connections and start using them for cycling now, while we lobby councils
to make such routes "official".  I would choose a tagging scheme along the
lines of "network=lcn" with "status=unofficial" or something so that these
routes could be located by a search algorithm if needed.

I've spent a while looking around the web, and there are no decent cycling
maps of the region to be found.  OSM and OpenCycleMap would be a superb
resource if we took the liberty of tagging "desired routes" such as I have
outlined.

How do you feel about this suggestion?

- Lachlan
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