I was editing footways around Aberaeron Harbour (in Ceredigion), specifically to divide two grade separated paths into separate ways, and I accidentally broke the Ceredigion Coast Path route relation. It is unclear to me whether it officialy follows the upper or lower quayside path, but the particular way I did the split left it following the lower quayside on OSM. Also, it’s now following a staircase down into the harbour instead of connected across a footway:link to join the road, leaving a gap in the route and including something that definitely isn’t part of the route.
It was only a tiny spur - I cut that bit in 2 and removed the extra bit from the route. That leaves this, which looks OK?
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Thank you. I’m a little hesitant on committing to one route or the other here, the only source I’ve seen on the route here is that someone mapped it to the conflation of the two paths. I would be happy to leave it at a note explaining this, but I’m having trouble accessing the map to edit it.
I’m not familiar with that bit, but further round the coast path has all sorts of alternatives depending on whether the tide’s in or the ranges are closed or whatever.
You can add the “more likely” as part of the main route and the “less likely” as an alternative, or just add them both for now, and add a comment on the changeset explaining the story. If you want to add more detail you can even add to the discussion on your own changeset.
Sorry for the slow response, not had the time for OSM recently. I opened up the editor to try adding the alternative route, and noticed I’d made a mistake plotting the upper path. Upon fixing that, it’s unambiguous the lower path is the intended route. Thanks for your assistance.
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