[Talk-GB] help with reverting changeset (all cycleways in a particular area deleted)

[Jon Pennycook]

Hello David.

There are definitely problems with the tagging of some/many of the
cycleways in that area, and they're all my fault.  I'm fixing the names of
cycleways as I get to them (I've got a load of edits I need to make in
Bracknell once I've finished with Crowthorne, so probably next week).
However, the problematic changeset deleted many other cycleways, and others
were replaced with generic highway=path without any access restrictions.

I wouldn't normally map an ordinary pavement separately these days, unless
there was something complex about them, or to join them to something
existing.  But separately-mapped shared use paths (highway=cycleway) are
useful.

Jon

On Sun, 17 Apr 2022 at 19:01, David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk>
wrote:

> On 17/04/2022 18:10, Jon Pennycook via Talk-GB wrote:
> >
> > A relatively new mapper just deleted a whole load of cycleways in
> > Bracknell that were correctly mapped in
> > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/119816211
> > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/119816211>
>
> Looking at your first example in the changeset comment, I wonder if
> there is a violation of "name is only the name" here.  "Harvest Ride
> cycle path", on the pavement of "Harvest Ride", sounds more like a
> description than a properly signposted name.
>
> (My personal feeling is that, whilst I wouldn't change an existing one,
> I think mapping cycle tracks and sidewalks separately generates a lot of
> clutter and also artefacts, because of the need to connect them to the
> associated road, for routing.)
>
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