I went for a cycle along SW8 this afternoon, and I now think that at
least that route (and the others if they're similar) should be kept in
OSM. It's not signposted wonderfully, and there are a few places where
following the signs wasn't possible, but there were definitely quite a
lot of signs — including some new ones that have been put up since
recent roadworks in various places.
The state Department of Transport still publish the bike maps
<https://www.transport.wa.gov.au/mediaFiles/active-transport/at_CYC_map_PerthFremantle-Stirling.pdf>
(although I can't find an index to them on their site; they're
discoverable with a search
<https://www.transport.wa.gov.au/public/SearchTransport.asp?&q=bike%20map&start=0>
though).
Here are some examples of the signs (I took a few more photos
<https://samwilson.id.au/T2006> too):
Image of the file attached to this post.
Image of the file attached to this post.
On 11/2/22 16:16, Sam Wilson wrote:
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, [email protected] wrote:
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 01:11:54 +1000
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Subject: Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap Wiki page Australian Tagging
Guidelines has been changed by Aaronsta
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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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