<div dir="ltr"><div>Yep opening_hours was approved for ways, and an example given was for summer-only roads <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:opening_hours#Voting_addon_.22way.22">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:opening_hours#Voting_addon_.22way.22</a></div><div><br></div><div>Whilst opening_hours is popular on amenities, the tag really doesn't seem to get much usage on highway tags. Perhaps wrapping it in an access:conditional works better for highways? As a benefit, conditional tags can provide a lot more states, eg:<br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace">vehicle:conditional=discouraged @ (Dec-Apr <span style="font-family:monospace">"Road is gnerally impassable during the wet season"</span>)</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On doing a little more research, opening_hours.js script used by popular generators and validators throw an error on the opening_hours formatting being months only eg <span style="font-family:monospace">May-Nov</span> and it expects <span style="font-family:monospace">May-Nov 00:00-24:00</span> or a comment <a href="https://openingh.openstreetmap.de/evaluation_tool/?EXP=May-Nov%2000%3A00-24%3A00">https://openingh.openstreetmap.de/evaluation_tool/?EXP=May-Nov%2000%3A00-24%3A00</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mapping complex tagging for routing engines to parse will always be a chicken-and-egg situation. But I suppose build it and they will come (or route around it in this case).</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 at 16:28, Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com">graemefitz1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><br></div><div>Thanks, fellas! It's not an utterly stupid idea then!</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 at 14:46, Brendan Barnes <<a href="mailto:brenbarnes@gmail.com" target="_blank">brenbarnes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>If a road has definitive closure dates we might be able to utilise <span style="font-family:monospace">opening_hours</span>. I tried to start something similar on Victorian Alps seasonal road closures, for example <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/105842220" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/105842220</a>. However these closures are usually described something like "closed to vehicles from Queens Birthday weekend to Cup Weekend" and are proving difficult to describe in OSM tag format without having to upload new dates each year.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've been mapping Surf Life Saving clubs with:</div><div>
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<font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-AU"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">opening_hours=Sep-Apr
Sa-Su 08:00-17:00, </span></span></span></font></span></font>which seems to work?</p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Would just opening_hours=May-Nov work?</p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%"></p></div><div>I know a lot of the roads in Cape York Peninsula are only open during the "dry" season, but not sue how they're tagged, if they are at all?</div><div> <br></div><div>Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div><br></div></div></div>
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