[OSM-newbies] Tempoary street closure

[Pieren]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 9:40 PM, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, that is a problem inherent to offline maps, including paper
> maps. The only solution is to provide a way to periodically update the
> offline data.

But such cases could be easily fixed by a special tagging, eg keeping
the permanent character of a road with the classical tags
(highway=primary) and store the temporary closure somewhere else
(highway:start/stop=*). Then we move the responsability to show or not
the closure onto the applications (which are the one who knows the
current date).
Something to discuss on tagging list.

Pieren