[Tagging] business closed for renovation - tagging best practice

[Janko Mihelić]

2013/1/18 Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com>

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

That's for a mapper to decide. Local mappers know best if a restaurant is
likely to open soon or stay like that forever.

  amenity=restaurant
>   closed_status=really-long-time-probably-not-reopening
>
> is not likely to lead to the right results on a GPSr POI search.
>

I agree, but there is no quick solution to this. We have to start using a
tag and hope the community will take it.
Does the "temporary" [1] solution sound good to you?

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/temporary

Janko
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