[OSM-newbies] Tempoary street closure

[Bill Leddy]

I don't know how well that would work. In the case of the road section I was looking at, the start date is known but end dates are often hard to reliably predict. In addition the nature of this particular street will change — possibly to destination — but it's not too clear to me. 

I wonder under what circumstances a user would want to keep data unchanged (for months in this case) on a device. --- I guess that would be the case where updates have to come from a vendor via CD or such. I would have thought those style of devices are pretty much out of the market by now but, of course, I don't know. 

Regards,
    Bill Leddy

> On Nov 7, 2014, at 12:16 AM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
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