Hi Andrew, thanks for all your great work on osm. I'm updating some State Forests boundaries in Vic from landuse=forest to leisure=nature_reserve as is no timber harvesting now (see discussion on osm forum page). See Wombat SF for example. You've done lots of great edits in Fryers Ridge area. The existing Fryers Ridge SF polygon incs lots beyond the formal State Forest. Any objections if I change this to natural=wood (as it shows tree cover reasonably well) and add the official State Forest boundary separately using leisure=nature_reserve? (This will show as an outline like on conservation reserves). Cheers Ian

Hi Bob, best wishes for 2024 to you! From memory, I’ve edited a couple of rec reserve boundaries, where the active rec reserve was much smaller than the planned paper reserve. I probably would have done so if the grazed/cropped area was fenced off and so not open to visitors. - thus, using OSM’s on ground rule to override the planned boundary. Cemeteries are another reserve type where the public area is often just a small proportion of the formal planned reserve, and much of the formal reserve has always been fenced off and used for grazing or cropping. Cheers Ian

Great work getting the new cycle path on OSM so quickly. Thanks for all your superb additions in Albury-Wodonga and further afield. Best wishes Ian

Wrong changeset description. My mistake. Should be refined alignment of Glamour Hill Track. TreeTracks.

Hi again, thanks for your quick edit and reply, Ian

Hi Breno-au, good to meet you. Could you check this river name please? VicMap shows the upper (NW) reach as King Billy Creek, but the main stretch that heads south as the Macalister River. I think we just need to split the way and add both names but want to make sure you don't have some local knowledge that would override VicMap. Thanks for your help, and for all your great high country mapping, Ian

Many thanks for your helpful reply Aleksandar. My apologies for messaging you rather than the original editor. I hadn’t realised that you’d split an earlier way that possessed all the extra tags. Best wishes Ian

Hi aleksaJov, thanks for all our great work in Australia. Can you please tell me what all the code numbers mean on this way and whether they can be removed? Thanks for your help, Ian

osm.org/way/742610941#map=13/-37.4860/146.2766

Thanks Michael. I'm reticent to change access restrictions unless I've ground truthed them so I might pass those queries onto you if I come across any more. Best wishes Ian

Hi cleary, do you have any field notes on access on this road? You tagged it as private but the first section passes through a State Forest (which was added to osm after you added the service road) and looks to be public. There's a gate on the W side of the SF. Many thanks once again, Ian

osm.org/way/335305696/history

Hi again, yes, the road status is ambiguous on the Base Map. It's shown on an easement (which may or may not exist on the ground) but outside the park shading. I interpreted the parallel roads / tracks at the property (one clearly in the property and one in the easement) to suggest that the western easement track was public (or at least MVO) and the eastern one on private land. I'd tagged the boundary/easement track just south of this section as access=unknown as it's not clear what exists on the ground. It does appear to be the major eastern boundary track on the east side of the forest which the other reserve tracks run into. Given your feedback, I'll leave this section as private, which will prevent through traffic on routers. Hopefully someone will confirm the rest of the boundary track one day too. Thanks again Ian

Thanks for your quick reply. I've changed the stretch south of the gate to a private driveway now and removed the road name. Best wishes Ian

Hi again cleary, and other query... osm.org/way/345417615

The Base Map shows the road just W of this as Dalmallee Road, and this section S of the gate is unnamed. The section N of the gate (N of this way) is also called Dalmallee Road on the Base Map. Any thoughts on the name on this stretch? I think the far S section which heads E to a house should probably be a driveway too. The stretch beside the rail line is a popular route on Strava's heatmap but I have no idea of official access. Thanks again, so glad to have your ground truthed edits to work from. Cheers Ian

Hi Cleary, can you give me some feedback pls on way:
osm.org/way/336185313
You've tagged this as a private driveway that runs through the Mt Carl property and then continues W, then S, and then E to an unnamed farm. My reading of imagery is that the far western segment, which runs N-S is within the reserve boundary and is potentially public (or maybe management vehicles only). Do you have any objections to me splitting the way and re-tagging this section to a track? Thanks again, Ian

Hi CS, can you please check hole #4 on the western edge of Latrobe Golf Course. From the number sequence it looks like this should be #7. Cheers Ian

Hi MMM, good to meet you. A while ago you removed the high country rail trail from this section of the old rail line. I've added it back in to most of the section as the rail trail now follows this route, in part. I've uploaded a couple of public gpx files to osm that show the new route. I havent intended to alter any of the railway tags but if you've got a chance, it'd be great if you cast your eye over the new ways. Best wishes Ian

Thanks for that Stephen. I've just added more shared paths in this changeset: osm.org/changeset/128509711#map=15/-36.0645/146.9215
This joins where you added a new section beside the cemetery. Plus another cycleway here: osm.org/changeset/128508913#map=16/-36.0596/146.9646

I think that should be it for new additions in Albury for a while. Thanks for all your work. Cheers.

Hi Stephen, can you please remove this shared path. I just rode it and added the footway last weekend. It’s a narrow footpath here, not a shared path. Cheers Ian

Hi ConsEbt, great to meet you. Can you give some feedback on this surface edit please? The Lakes Way at Tarbuck Bay is clearly an asphalt road with lane markings on Mapillary street level imagery from 2015, and on Maxar and DCS NSW satellite imagery. Has it recently been downgraded to a gravel road? Thanks for your help, best wishes, Ian

Hi David, thanks for your quick reply and rapid update, best wishes Ian