Steve
Sorry for the delay in responding. I've been considering your comments: 1. You really only want bike routes that have some sort of external source, and preferably local signage for them. I'm tending to agree with you now that OSM should be a formal map of actual physical features. Perhaps the time to put a 'Hume & Hovell Trail' on OSM is when and if someone can drive a project similar to the Goulburn River High Country Rail Trail, to have signage placed and the trail publicized. I think touring cyclists would find this a very scenic, safe and interesting 4-5 day tour with an historical background to it. In the mean time Bikely.com is a suitable web site to publish bike routes and this is what I have done. I will remove the H&H Trail relations from OSM. 2. .......... show explorers routes overlaid on normal maps. This is probably a question to raise on the tagging mailing list. It's an issue that gets debated in various forms. It depends a lot on whether there is any physical manifestation of the historical event. I still believe this sort of historical information makes maps valuable, providing there is a suitable historical tag for it. I may follow your suggestion to raise this issue on the tagging mailing list. How would I get on to the tagging mailing list? In the mean time I will remove the original explorers route from OSM. I have at least been able to add missing roads, improved the accuracy of existing road location and corrected road names in OSM that follow my H&H Trail all the way from Wodonga to Broadford. Again thank you for your interest and comments. Regards Mark R.
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