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I have successfully used JOSM in the past to add mountain bike tracks, and they appeared in the OpenMTB maps shortly afterwards. I couple of weeks ago, I again used JOSM to add many bush tracks, and kept checking the Open Street Map Australia Garmin downloads for my changes - and they don't appear. Today I checked in the main OSM map on the website - and they aren't there either (which probably explains why they don't appear in the OSMAustralian download!).

I can go back in and download the area in JOSM and the additions are all there (eg Pike Rd through node 1870995314 (-32.3367082, 116.6151338))

What can be going wrong ?

Ian

asked 31 Aug '12, 06:00

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Pike rd misses a highway tag, without it it won't get rendered. Also note that you shouldn't use abbreviations in the name tag (or anywhere else).

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answered 31 Aug '12, 06:18

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edited 31 Aug '12, 06:18

ah, thanks for such a quick response. So does every track need a highway tag? Thanks for the note about abbreviations - I will fix.

Ian

(31 Aug '12, 06:21) Ian
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Yes, every type of road needs a highway tag. Just drawing a way can have many different meanings, from building outlines over rivers up to country borders. So you have to add tags describing what type of way it is.

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