[OSM-newbies] Tempoary street closure

[Bill Leddy]

Thanks guys n' gals. I'll go ahead and mark it highway=construction etc. 

Regards,
    Bill Leddy

> On Nov 3, 2014, at 4:47 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/3/14 7:25 PM, wouter van der plas wrote:
>> the big problem with this solution is offline apps.
>> 
>> for example: i have the osmand app and downloaded my area.
>> but when ever i would leave my neighborhood it would route wrong. and when ever i would check on the osm site it would do fine.
>> 
>> after a while i discover that i had a street under construction but all the work was done and it was changed in osm but it was still in my app.
> there's not really a good solution to this other than using apps where
> map updates are frequent - whether that's online apps that take copies
> frequently, or offline apps where they try to stay current.
> 
> i find that OsmAnd produces updates 2 or 3 times a month, which is pretty
> good. much better than quarterly updates from Garmin, so i think we
> actually do pretty well.
> 
> richard
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