Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
The problem with disused: is the object disappears from the map.
Leaving aside the "which map?" question, lots of things don't get rendered; it makes sense for a disused restaurant to NOT be rendered as a restaurant, since whatever it is, it's not currently somewhere where you can have a meal.
Your alternative is to leave it "on the map" as it does in fact exist. Then use "access=" to clarify the status. It might have degraded from "access=public" down to "access=no" or "access=permissive" depending.
In the example of a hiking route, that's a bad idea since it the access tag implies something entirely different to "is / is not signed" - in this case "am I legally allowed to go there?".
The things that I end up marking as "disused" are things like pubs, restaurants and churches, and in some cases "disused:amenity" might make sense (it was an X, is now boarded up, but might become an X again in the future) whereas in others some kind of note or "former_X" tag might make sense (as an indicator to mappers as much as anything else - e.g. the building here was an X, but has been converted to a private house and is likely to stay that way). Basically, leave it to local mappers to choose - any attempt at enforcing a top-down system will miss the nuances of what's happening locally.
Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
