Even if they dismantling these water taps then seasonal=yes is still better for such cases
Apr 12, 2025, 23:24 by [email protected]: > I hate it when random mappers delete and then add water taps to the > same place every year. They switch some (but not all) of them off for > the winter to protect against freezing. They reason that as the > suspense in operation is longer than 1 month, it's following best > practice. I beg to differ. > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Niels Elgaard Larsen <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > Martin Koppenhoefer: >> >> Am Fr., 11. Apr. 2025 um 20:49 Uhr schrieb Niels Elgaard Larsen >> >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>: >> >> I have added and updated many water_point s. >> >> Sometimes they do not work. >> >> But what if is just temporarily? >> >> then someone who sees it working can switch it back to active. >> > >> > Most likely nobody will see it because who searches for disabled PIO's? >> > >> > And I and many other mostly use OSM offline with e.g., OsmAnd. >> > >> > So if a water point is out of service for a week before someone fix >> > it, then it might take a month before I can find it with OsmAnd. >> > >> > That is the reason that the wiki says not to use the construction to >> > tag such short-term closures of ways. >> >> Sure, for closures less than a month or so. But I think this discussion >> is mostly about longer-term breakage where there is no expectation of >> fixing soon. >> >> Arguably, osmand should show a disused: entity perhaps grayed out and >> maybe only at higher zoom, as that's useful informmation for someone. >> Perhaps configurable. That's an improvement for a particular rendered. >> >> My point is that we shouldn't leave things in the db marked as actually >> existing because if they were properly marked some renderer might not >> show it to someone who might have wished to know about it. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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