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

[stevea]

On Feb 14, 2021, at 7:58 PM, Josh Marshall <josh.p.marshall at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks SteveA, some great resources there.
You are welcome!

> Regarding wiki-documenting, I only just realised that the Australian
> Tagging Guidelines has the recommended tags in the 'Rail Trails'
> section. Perhaps I should summarise the discussion here and add it
> there?

If you think that would help Australian rail-trail volunteers mapping in OSM, please do.  If you can "widen" it to be more inclusive of other kinds of bicycle (route) tagging in (Australia, a particular state of Australia because "they do it with these methodologies there"...) sure, but no need to if that's difficult or too much effort or even "going overboard" (because you're not sure, but you are simply "filling space").  Wiki are nice and sparse because they can be.  If they only need to grow a branch to fill a niche with what you know about that branch and its niche, great, build that, then stop building.

> Also, there is a Victoria > Bike paths page
> (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Victoria,_Australia/Bike_paths),
> would an equivalent page for NSW be welcomed?

Absolutely, we have different methods in different states, too.  And besides methods, we use these wiki to say "here are the (rail subdivisions, bike route networks...) we have in that state."  Usually in separate wikis (or sub-wikis or even sub-sub-wikis), with "links at the top, down," but you organize it into the Ozzie namespace as you (and other OSMers down under) see fit to do so.  These things emerge slowly, over a longer time, with rather wide input on how they get sketched out.  The early work to do this is important.  What works in USA is to make national a "top" level, the states a second level, then rail, cycleways, highways, even counties, etc. tertiary and beyond.  Again, whatever works for you and there, it IS a consensus that will emerge, so "ask around."  You've got it.  (It has already emerged, it merely keeps growing!)

Happy mapping,
SteveA