[OSM-talk-ie] Waterford Greenway

[Colm Donoghue]

I did some of the tagging of the line at the western end of the
line/Greenway, using potlatch; I guess there's a mix of tags, and relations.
It seems easy to create relations with the same name but different database
reference numbers

I've added the eurovelo 1 relation to the eastern section (Kilmeaden -
Waterford) but held off on the NCN relation, as I can't seem to continue on
the existing ncn relation.

One possibly confusing  issue is that there is a narrow gauge railway from
Kilmeaden down towards Waterford, which is tagged electrified=no
but there are bits with the gague still 1600, while the actual gauge is
sub-metre.

I didn't see any tags saying the railway was electrified, they all said
electrified=no. Is it clearer if the entire tag is removed?
I haven't been on the section since it opened, so I'm not sure if the rails
were removed or not. there are a pair of rails left on another Greenway in
the Midlands, there may
be here too. I'll probably get on this section over the next few weeks. If
the rails are gone, I'll remove any gauge mentions.

Colm

2017-03-28 10:44 GMT+01:00 Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>:

> Hello talk-ie,
>
> I see you have a lovely new cycle route, the Waterford Greenway:
>
> http://www.independent.ie/life/travel/ireland/green-light-
> irelands-longest-greenway-opens-in-waterford-35562434.html
>
> The mapping is a bit, shall we say... confused?
>
> Quite a lot of the route in OSM seems to be ways which were formerly a
> preserved railway and have now had the tag 'highway=cycleway' added - but
> most of the old railway tags have been left, so we have the entertaining
> situation of an electrified cycleway with a loading gauge. I suspect there
> might be one or two sections where the cycleway actually isn't really there.
>
> And then there's the route relations - oh boy. Random relations have been
> created, ways added to a 'superroute' relation, route relation tags added
> to ways, etc. etc. etc. It's all a bit of a horlicks albeit evidently one
> created with good intentions.
>
> I've fixed a few obvious connectivity howlers, but it really needs a
> thorough tidy-up, and it would be better coming from someone local (or, at
> least, in the same country). In theory all the ways should be part of two
> relations (NCN relation 6686612, ICN relation 6641108) and should,
> obviously, connect with nearby roads where appropriate.
>
> cheers
> Richard
>
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