[Tagging] business closed for renovation - tagging best practice

[Greg Troxel]

Erik Johansson <erjohan at gmail.com> writes:

> Removing things is not such a good idea when you have
> people downloading offline data and use data that is 6 months to a
> year of of date,

I don't think we should optimize the database for bugs in people's
processing pipelines.  I have not encountered good reasons to be more
than a month or so out of date (on Garmin with OSM data).

Also, I think showing a non-operating restaurant on a map is at least
20x as bad as not showing an open one.

The other thing missing from this discussion is how all these temporary
tags get used.  I realize in osm creating tags and using them have
nothing to do with each other, but in the extreme that's a bug.  We're
building a model of the world, and we need to pay attention to how the
data is consumed.  In particular, lower-fidelity consumers should not be
mislead and as an extreme example:

  amenity=restaurant
  closed_status=really-long-time-probably-not-reopening

is not likely to lead to the right results on a GPSr POI search.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 194 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/attachments/20130118/41f936be/attachment.pgp>