Personally I like to use path=mtb to specify it as a Mountain Bike Track.

we should probably just import the rest of them

I've previously worked on bringing in missing traffic lights in @aharvey/diary/393663 but now we have a lot of traffic lights mapped with a ref so linking these together to add start_date should be straight forward.

indeed, on the Esri World Imagery you can see there are houses here now.

discussion ongoing at changeset/168924094

On the DCS NSW Topographic map the dashed line only goes on the short section from Heathcote until it meets way/1377326848 where it then stops.

The DCS NSW Base Map doesn't show any track/trail here, only much closer to the railway line it shows a railway maintenance track.

The park Plan of Management document at https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/royal-heathcote-national-parks-garawarra-plan-of-management-220657.pdf does include a black dashed line for management trail near here, but it follows the railway line and I believe this represents the railway maintenance track we have mapped at way/96051429 and not this "Roman Trail" way which aligns with the Strava heatmap.

I checked back against the 1955, 1972, 1975, 1980, 1983, 1984, 2004, 2005 historical imagery and none show a visible management trail along this alignment at any point, so it's not like this used to be a management trail which over time has converted into a path.

Based on all this I find it highly unlikely this is a sanctioned walking track at all, and certainly unlikely to be a sanctioned mountain biking track.

That said, I do advocate mapping based on what's on the ground and I don't have any on the ground knowledge here, but it seems more likely to be an informal/unsanctioned mountain biking track.

Using highway=cycleway for a technical mountain biking track is controversial, and usually reserved for non-technical cycling paths. Personally I prefer highway=path + path=mtb.

Since way/1414673606 is a re-creation of the original way at way/171488451 I've deleted way/1414673606 and restored the original one.

To try and make it easier for us mappers I suggest we don't delete the way but rather work on the appropriate tags.

Further discussion is prefer over edit warring.

the deleted way way/171488451/history was recreated again at way/1414673606/history

In order to prevent the way being deleted then re-added and to make it easier to manage, I've restored way/171488451/history

I suggest we leave the way in OSM as it's clear from Strava heatmap that something exists on the ground and it's being use.

We should instead work to improve the access tags and consider if it should be a lifecycle prefixed path like abandoned:highway=path or left as highway=path.

osm.wiki/Why_can%27t_I_delete_this_trail%3F

osm.wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines/Cycling_and_Foot_Paths#Legal_Access

hi why was the "Kangaroo Creek Track" name removed?

hi what is this "cycleway" you've added in way/1414673606 ?

Is there an unsanctioned mountain bike track there?

hi apologies and thanks for contributing but I've deleted way/1328475718 and way/1328475717.

These had been mapped many years ago in way/32173325/history and way/457637430/history however unfortuantly another mapped decided to delete these in Jan 2024, so when you added yours you didn't see these pre-existing ones, however to retain the original history we've restored the original ways.

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These stream pools exist, they aren't errors.

Thanks for spotting and fixing this!

generally highway=trunk assumes bicycle=yes by default, at least per osm.wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access_restrictions however there's no harm is explicitly specifying this with bicycle=yes.

Looks good. I fixed up a tag issue, in iD the tags input doesn't take the = sign, unless you change the tags input to text. I also fixed a typo in the value and added the operator:wikidata tag.

https://osmlab.github.io/osm-deep-history/#/way/83655247