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

[Sam Wilson]

I think it depends on when you last updated OsmAnd! It sounds like 
perhaps you're not seeing the routes that have been deleted, because 
they're for the most part not the river or freeway ones, but rather a 
somewhat regularly-spaced network throughout the suburbs.

The other thing that occurs to me about this discussion is that aaronsta 
is not actually subscribed to this list — does anyone know? I might 
leave a comment on the changeset instead...


On 13/2/22 03:31, forster at ozonline.com.au wrote:
> 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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