Yeah, whenever I've driven and mapped at the same time there's been a lot of pulling over to write stuff down. Very stop-start, I don't think it's possible any other way (and it's no fun either. ;)

I've edited the wiki. Nobody in #osm and #osm-au can think of any reason not to tag it such.

Yeah, that is odd. :/

The course of a former railway which has been abandoned and the track and infrastucture removed.

That sounds kind of counterintuitive to not tag it as such. As there's no justification for that statement on the wiki, I'd probably tag it anyway.

That's probably not helping either. :P

I think if you're going to be representing OSM's interests, you might consider being a bit more tactful. Sure, this guy escalated it to insults, but consider for a moment that you've just asked him to rewrite his entire site and then pushed the issue when he told you he wasn't interested.

You should also consider taking down or at least changing the names in your post. Someone being rude in no way justifies a witch hunt on a public forum.

Cheers,
Ash,

I noticed you just put in a section, but it needs a highway designation too.

Looks like it might very well be highway=track (out of the options of track & path. Check that wiki page for a rationale.)

Good work though. :)

Interesting, I didn't realise we had anything like that. I'll have to check it out (whether someone else gets a trace of it first or not.)

Awesome, I was just thinking about that today. Did you actually go and survey it, or was it a Nearmap job?

I know, it's a bit of a misleading tag, but it's pretty easy once you understand it. :)

Looking at the picture, that is cycleway=opposite_lane.

From the wiki: “The route is a lane, but bicycles may go in the direction opposite of other traffic.” This means the cycleway may go in either direction, even though the vehicle traffic may only go one way. :)

So that's highway=something;oneway=yes;cycleway=opposite_lane;

I believe cycleway=opposite may be what you're looking for. It's a rather unintuitive tag, have a read up and see if it helps.

As far as I'm aware, the minutely diffs are broken at the moment, thus Mapnik has stalled. It's definitely not rendering. D:

:D

Wow, that's a very neat trick. Really does make you appreciate how much faster Google serves up tiles though. :(

Dear Ashley,

Thanks for posting this on the Internet where it can't be eaten by mistakes.

From Ashley.

For sure. :) Hope the James 'Doc' Livingston Auto gets better soon.

The park across the road from me was dug up for maintenance, and it's still out of action. I've been updating it on OSM as it changes, but I guess that's a benefit of living across the road.

I'd probably replace it with a highway=construction;access=no;, and keep an eye out for changes. :D

The problem is that I've deliberately set out to fetch these three street names twice now and I've still missed tagging one. I must have been really absent that day. :)

That's really odd, because none of the stations I've put in are rendering. That's both ways and areas, and I have absolutely no idea why. Here's a prime example with both a way and an area platform, neither are rendering.

Another thought: I don't think it's a good idea routing algorithms having to support an exhaustive list of tags when solutions like this can provide unambiguous hints. The sleepier I get, the more strongly I'm convinced this is a good idea. >_>