[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - traffic jam warning

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2010/5/31 Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>:
> By "permanent" you presumably mean "stable". Nodes and ways have IDs,
> so it doesn't seem like a difficult problem to me.


if you're talking about static (OSM-)data this is indeed simple,
otherwise it requires quite some effort: nodes are deleted, moved,
etc., and this much more if the (elsewhere) attached data is not
visible in the OSM-Editor.

> Also, in this
> particular instance, a traffic jam might not really apply to a
> specific way, but could be a whole new area, so it could simply be an
> unconnected geographical area over the top.

If it does apply to a specific way (and direction!, which is quite
often the case especially for dual carriage ways = high traffic),
slightly moving the way's position might completely change the jamming
indication (e.g. from inbound to outbound traffic).

I believe this information is either valueable, then it should (could)
be in our database, or it is not and then I don't care if it breaks
somewhere else then OSM.

cheers,
Martin