[talk-au] OpenStreetMap Wiki page Australian Tagging Guidelines has been changed by Aaronsta

[forster at ozonline.com.au]

Hi

I am looking at the map as if a cyclist visitor to Perth. I am using  
Osmand with the bike routes highlighted feature turned on. I presume  
the highlighted routes are the same ones that are being talked about.  
I can't be sure. The highlights look useful and I would use them. They  
pick out the paths on either side of the river and the ramps onto  
bridges. Routes that I would naturally gravitate towards. I can easily  
turn off the highlights. I definitely want these routes, assuming the  
highlights are the same thing as being discussed  here.

Tony

> I'm also a Perth cyclist, and I think I pretty much agree with what
> others have said. These routes should stay on the map if they're
> signposted on the ground, but other than that I think they're often not
> particularly great routes. I must admit that the cyclemap render now
> (since the removal of these routes) actually looks a lot more like my
> intuitive idea of what cycling looks like in Perth — i.e. there are
> some good purpose-made paths along the freeways, and other than that
> there's not much. With the official routes, it always looked like there
> was this amazing cross-cutting network of cycleways, and actually
> that's not really the case.
>
> —Sam
>
>
> On 11/2/22 13:44, iansteer at iinet.net.au wrote:
>>> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 01:11:54 +1000
>>> From: <osm.talk-au at thorsten.engler.id.au>
>>> To: <talk-au at openstreetmap.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap Wiki page Australian Tagging
>>> 	Guidelines has been changed by Aaronsta
>>> Message-ID: <045901d81e90$8c77e060$a567a120$@thorsten.engler.id.au>
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>>>
>>> Well, he has answered a changeset comment:
>>>
>>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/116656873
>>>
>>> I'll leave it to the WA OSM community if that's a valid reason to simply
>> delete
>>> a whole bunch of routes for which there definitely are signs on the
>> ground,
>>> and what to do about it.
>>>
>> I am from Perth, and am a cyclist.  I agree with aaronsta that these routes
>> are pretty useless.  I have often looked at the signage and wondered about
>> OSM & the usefulness of the routes.  I might not have gone to the extent of
>> deleting them, but it is probably the right thing to do (they are
>> pretty-much obsolete and I doubt if anyone uses them)
>>
>> Ian
>>
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