<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi Javbw.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for the feedback.</div><div class="">We don’t intent to map circus. I just had problems coming up with a good example for temporary building, so kinda resulted in some ambiguity around it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">If you want to map such local and temporary structures, please set a personal reminder in your calendar app on your phone to go remove it. Otherwise it may stay there for years. </blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think in this case the user specifies the end-date when they fill in the preset. If he doesn’t specify the end-date we will give him the alert like:<b class=""> By not specifying the end date you mean this temporary structure is there for indeterminate amount of time and is not intended to be moved. Confirm / Cancel.</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think we also need a server-side that tracks such temporary buildings and remove them once the due date is reached? I doubt the user will go and manually remove the building one-month later even if we remind him.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">There are some “temporary” structures that are permanent: a Bus is used as an office for a nearby driving school because no permanent structures are allowed to be built in the area. That bus has been parked in the same spot for over 10 years, (moved only during typhoons), so I consider it permanent and mappable - a much larger erection (like a circus tent) only there for a month is much more “temporary” than that bus. </blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">So that is what we have classified as semi-permanent. (I have pointed in my previous comment)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Thanks for explaining. So then in order to have no confusion, we give user the binary selection:</div><div class="">{permanent, temporary}. If he selects temporary -> he can then optionally with a date picker specify the end date.</div><div class="">That would then map to your guidelines. </div></blockquote></blockquote><div class=""> </div><div class="">So I guess just like we just said above - user doesn’t specify the end-date and he confirms that this is an indeterminate temporary feature (semi-permanent).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Does this goes well?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Taras.</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 27 Jul 2017, at 8:48 PM, John Willis <<a href="mailto:johnw@mac.com" class="">johnw@mac.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jul 27, 2017, at 3:52 PM, Vozniuk Taras <<a href="mailto:taras.vozniuk@geothings.tw" class="">taras.vozniuk@geothings.tw</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">So non-permanent is a building structure constructed for a defined short period of time. Like Circus tent for example. It stays there for a defined 1 month. <br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Unless it is for some international event (like the olympics, World Cup, etc) I would not map buildings that would be there for a month, especially something as local as a circus. <br class=""><br class="">If you want to map such local and temporary structures, please set a personal reminder in your calendar app on your phone to go remove it. Otherwise it may stay there for years. <br class=""><br class="">There are some “temporary” structures that are permanent: a Bus is used as an office for a nearby driving school because no permanent structures are allowed to be built in the area. That bus has been parked in the same spot for over 10 years, (moved only during typhoons), so I consider it permanent and mappable - a much larger erection (like a circus tent) only there for a month is much more “temporary” than that bus. <br class=""><br class="">Javbw. <br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Tagging mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org" class="">Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a><br class="">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>