[Tagging] Open of discussion on "operational_status" (part of life cycle with disused/abandoned/demolished)

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2013/7/2 Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com>

> So how *should* we annotate an object, which we believe to be
> a permanent part of the landscape,
> but which needs some form of descriptive note?
>


I'd say this depends on the object.


> Example: a restroom with a sign reading "Closed until July 2014 for
repairs",


note="closed until july 2014 for repairs" (really, one year to repair a
toilet?)


> or a highly decorative water fountain that's dry,


amenity=fountain (I wouldn't expect that a fountain has to have water in it
all the time)


> or a drinking water tap that works OK, but dribbles on your shoes,


wouldn't think this is a detail worth storing it. I live in a city with
many public drinking water fountains, they look like this:
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nasone.jpg and sometimes they are dry,
sometimes they dribble, sometimes they are so strong that their jet makes
everything wet around them, but these are variations within a normal
"range" and might also change from one day to the other.


cheers,
Martin


PS: Basic tags for storing non-formal detail information are for example
"note" (for other mappers), "description" (for map consumers), "fixme" (for
other mappers and indicating a potential problem) and their localized
variants.
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