[talk-au] Converting railway= abandoned to highway=track

[Jonathon Rossi]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 12:27 PM Josh Marshall <josh.p.marshall at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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 (
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2269030), and elsewhere eg The
> Great Victorian Rail Trail (https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1043265
> )
>
> 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,
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/243988974 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?
>

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.

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.

--
Jono
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