[Tagging] business closed for renovation - tagging best practice

[John F. Eldredge]

"Janko Mihelić" <janjko at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think we should invent a tag for "temporary out of work" things. If
> you
> download an offline map and go abroad, the application could estimate
> that
> a few months have passed, and that a caffe could be open now, or that
> a
> road could be open. When you put a "highway=construction" on the road,
> it
> is closed for good if you don't have internet.
> 
> I reccomend something like "closed=yes" and if you have an idea about
> the
> time when it could open, "closed:until=YYYY-MM-DD". You could add a
> reason
> for closing, "closed:reason=renovation" or
> "closed:reason=construction".
> 
> This way we could even put real-time data like a shop closed for one
> day.
> 
> When a "closed:until" comes to an end, a bot could delete them
> automatically.
> 
> Janko Mihelić
> 
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Sometimes a business ends up being closed for renovations or repairs for much longer than expected.  One McDonalds restaurant here in Nashville, TN, USA closed "temporarily" over a year ago due to a fire.  It is still closed, and still not repaired, due to a dispute between the corporation and the city (the zoning board wants all of the parking to be behind the restaurant, and McDonalds wants the parking to be on three sides of the restaurant, as it was with the old building).

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