I finally got around to fixing the Greenbelt Bikeway in Heritage Park in Champaign. Notable edits:

• Cutting off the section that goes over Copper Slough to reconnect to the loop around Kaufmann Lake. This doesn’t actually exist as part of the trail, and is in fact a steep incline. I’m guessing so many people have been using it to go between the abandoned section of the Greenbelt Bikeway and the loop around Kaufmann Lake that to whoever was using satellite imagery it looked like a dirt path.

• Speaking of the abandoned section, added the way of the abandoned section of the Greenbelt Bikeway that went in the tunnel/culvert along with Copper Slough. Yes, the Champaign Parks District built a cycleway that shares a tunnel/culvert with a creek and then made cyclists forge the creek to continue on what was then the concrete cycleway. It should be no surprise that this section of the trail is completely unusable thanks to all the water damage over the years. I tagged it with abandoned:highway=cycleway so it won’t show up on the main map, but those of you editing will find it. There’s plenty of evidence for this existing for anyone who wants to survey the area.

• Added the section that goes around the west side of the pond in Heritage Park, just south of Bradley Avenue. This area is clearly newer than the rest of the Greenbelt Bikeway, so new in fact that it’s not even on satellite imagery yet. I used my own GPS traces to map this, so it may not be completely accurate and may need fixing.

• Added surface tags all around. This is especially important for the section that’s being used as a detour around the abandoned section that went through the tunnel/culvert as that section is a dirt path. Everything else on the Greenbelt Bikeway is either concrete or asphalt.

A note to other mappers mapping footways and cycleways: the way they’re rendered changes based on what the surface tag is set to. By default they’re rendered as dash-dots, but surface=concrete or surface=asphalt will change them to the more prominent dashes instead.