There were some attempts to develop tags that would indicate when features should be considered closed/inaccessible, e.g. this proposal that foundered: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/temporary
We do have more accepted tags for roads that are proposed and being built: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:proposed http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:construction This must have come up in the Humanitarian team. What do they do? Regards, Tom On 6 February 2014 15:30, Jonathan <[email protected]> wrote: > Mmmm not sure. There is obviously a line to be drawn between permanent > and transient but when it comes to roads or even certain POIs I think there > is a need for mapping the change. Last year, in Birmingham, when they > closed the main road tunnels that go under the city centre for a number of > months, the local OSM group marked the roads a closed. Rightly so I feel. > > However, we do need some way of tagging the Node where the interruption of > a Way exists with some indication that there is a temporary closure > specifying what, when, how, who and why! That way those systems that don't > care about transient closures can ignore it and map it as normal but > routing systems can take it into account. > > If such a tagging scheme was agreed then it could apply in many instances > not just road closures. > > Jonathan > > http://bigfatfrog67.me > > > On 06/02/2014 14:46, Laurence Penney wrote: > >> Indeed this is surely the right approach. Many people use OSM inside >> products where the map data is updated rarely: all the offline map apps for >> mobile come to mind. Temporary states have no place in these apps, and it's >> unfair on their devs to force them to work out a long-term state to offer >> their users. >> >> - L >> >> On 6 Feb 2014, at 14:36, Andy Allan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 6 February 2014 09:43, David Earl <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> I think it would be useful to have a means of indicating road closures >>>> etc >>>> which are different from simply pretending the road doesn't exist or >>>> doesn't >>>> allow certain users for a while. >>>> >>> I work on the principle of marking the "permanent state" of features, >>> as much as possible. Obviously everything changes, but if a situation >>> is deliberately temporary (e.g. a road closed for crane operations, or >>> for a fortnight for digging, etc) then I don't change the 'permanent >>> state' of the feature. We had a trunk road in Putney that was one-way >>> for three months, but I didn't change the map to correspond since it >>> was clearly not permanent. And I'd encourage people not to mark >>> flooding as natural=water, or removing bits of railway when they are >>> certainly going to repair it, or even adding "access=no" tags to >>> something that might be fixed by the weekend. >>> >>> If it's deemed important by people to mark the "temporary state" >>> somehow, then please use a separate tagging system. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Andy >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-GB mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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