On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:59 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 August 2010 21:52, Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> wrote: >> We recently had a bridge temporarily removed for the SAIL 2010 event >> in Amsterdam[1]. >> I tagged it access=no with date_on and date_off time restriction tags >> as suggested on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access, hoping >> it would be picked up by Mapnik as well. >> It turns out it is not and the road is still rendered as a no access >> road even though the date_off is over a week ago. This discourages >> tagging temporary access restrictions - could we make it so that it >> does take date_on and date_off into account? > > Due to the nature of caching tiles it doesn't seem feasible to think > temporary tagging would be handled in the way you think it should, > however I do expect routing software might be a better place for these > types of things to be dealt with. >
While you can't take browser caching into account, in my experience the main tile server manages to keep tiles updated fairly well these days - good enough for one-off (non-repeating) access restrictions with a day resolution to be rendered accurately. Martijn martijn van exel +++ [email protected] laziness - impatience - hubris http://schaaltreinen.nl/ twitter / skype: mvexel flickr: rhodes _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
