What is your source that this trail is primarily for hiking/foot traffic? The cited website to waukesha.gov is broken. But Menomonee Falls' own pages clearly indicate the Bugline is equally for biking and hiking ( https://www.menomonee-falls.org/1168/Bugline-Trail ) and even refer to https://www.waukeshacounty.gov/biking/ Not tagging the Bugline Trail as a regional bike route is a collective loss for the users of CyclOSM.org and opencyclemap.org, and I hope I've made a strong case that the bike route be reinstated.

I would argue Polonia and Lincoln village should be bordered by the River between S 6th and S 16th Sts - rather than by either Harrison Ave or Cleveland Ave. The UWM Neighborhoods LibGuide is often cited as the authority for Milwaukee's OSM neighborhoods, but the map at the guide has recently and inconsistently changed Polonia and Lincoln Village's boundary from Harrison (old map: https://earth.google.com/web/@42.99606111,-87.91526669,189.90673105a,1216.99742754d,30.00001232y,359.25790656h,0t,0r/data=OgMKATA) to Cleveland (new map: https://guides.library.uwm.edu/c.php?g=56373&p=7831880). The Kinnickinnic River makes the most sense because of how few crossings there are. Furthermore, it's absurd that Baran Park would not include the area of S 3rd & Harrison; in no way is it connected to Bay View. UWM's boundaries were not drawn with care, and the River makes the most logical sense.

That sounds like the perfect compromise and use in this case!

I don't think it makes sense to remove the route where signs aren't present. They don't appear in Google Street View, but a few are there in person and this roadway is still accounted for as a bike route in the city's maps. Removing the route from this way and Brown creates a gap in CyclOSM.

Feel free to revert! If memory serves from an in-person visit, there is separation between the cycle tracks and roadway with curbs, and there is also separation between the footway and cycletrack by a continuous, parallel grass strip. The cycletracks do not appear to be compulsory, and the the cycletracks are signalized at Connell.

Thanks. Now that I know about the Data Working Group, I will be sure to reach out in the future. I was under the impression that using data from Trailforks in OSM violated Trailforks' user license policies - is this not the case? Moreover, the pathways I removed were not simply inaccurate to ground truth, but they also crossed many other ways without intersecting nodes, and many ways simply do not exist at all.

Which footway in particular are you referring to?

Thanks

But wouldn't this conflict with the actual on-the-ground wayfinding signs that exist usually at intersections of path and path?

Good point. Perhaps we could use the "alt_name" tag and include both relevant Relations? Thankfully there are very few trails that double - I'm thinking of the City-owned Beerline vs. the County-owned Beerline segments. Or do you mean that we should strike the Line name in favor of making all ways simply "Oak Leaf Trail"? I'm not in favor of this latter option because it's not as specific as it could be. Or do you mean simply striking all paths' Names (field & tag) and only IDing them by their Relations? That could work, and would declutter the ways' name labels when zoomed far in.

Feel free to change or revert any that you believe are inaccurate. I base my edits to path types around path width (shared multiuse paths are usually 8-10' wide), path material (almost always paved asphalt), and personal experience (seeing many people commonly riding bikes there). Regarding Hoyt Park specifically, it is the trailhead for the OLT Menomonee Line (at the bridge) and the Hoyt Park MTB Trail, which surrounds the pool at the park's perimeter. https://www.mtbproject.com/trail/62201/hoyt-park I would argue the changes I made to paths in Hoyt Park are correct as Cycle & Foot Paths because they and the park connect the former two trails with the OLT Root River Line - but it may be true that I inaccurately and mistakenly tagged them (the Hoyt Park paths specifically) as part of the OLT Meno Line when they in fact are not.

Got it. Thanks.