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

[forster at ozonline.com.au]

Sorry,
The 2 examples I mentioned, river side and on ramps were not deleted.
Tony

> 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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