It is certainly a good idea, but we should take several use cases into account (next to the normal rendering). Some people like to dowload the data to their device and can't update it every week or even every month.
So there should be a tagging schema that denotes when the works start and when they end. Then it's up to the developers of the devices and the apps to implement this. OSM can't do anything more. There's also a difference when the road is closed, or when there's just one lane closed. I propose the following: Sy you start from a road with the tags highway=primary ref=R32 and there will be one lane closed, from 1 Aug to 30 Sept, the tagging could be highway=primary ref=R32 construction=minor constriction:start=2012-08-01 construction:stop=2012-09-30 After the roadworks are done, all construction tags can be removed. When the entire road will be closed from 1 Jul to 31 Aug, the following schema could be used: highway=construction construction=primary ref=R32 construction:start=2012-07-01 construction:stop=2012-08-31 Off course, when the roadworks are done, the tags still have to be edited manually and reverted to the original state as quick as possible. When roadworks take longer than expected (as usual), the construction:stop tag can just be edited. This will work well enough on most tools without modification. When a tool doesn't care about constructions, the highway=construction will be an unknown type, it won't be used for routing and it won't be rendered. When the road is still open, the type will still be known, and the road will still be used. If the tool cares about the construction tag as it's implemented now, but doesn't read the dates, it will also work well enough, just as the case above. This is only a proposal. I would love to bring the date notations closer to the standard notation used in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:opening_hours, but it looks pretty difficult to enter years in that notation. Also, what is "off" and what is "on" with road works? This is quite ambiguous. All comments are welcome. Regards, Sander 2012/6/20 Nicolas Pettiaux <nico...@pettiaux.be> > hello the list, > > Wouldnt it be interesting to integrate the werken / chantiers in OSM > > See > http://www.bruxellesmobilite.irisnet.be/news/les-grands-chantiers-de-lete/ > > I bet it would help make OSM the most online routing map for Brussels. > > Ideas, opinions, faisability ? > > The data are online, mostly in an awkrard pdf ! > > Regards, > > Nicolas > > -- > Nicolas Pettiaux > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be >
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